Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson's State of the Union Message dwelt heavily on what has become a consistent theme for the administration: the need for a national exercise of will to fight a distant and discouraging war and simultaneously to solve complex, thorny domestic problems...
...many areas, the Johnson initiative sounded as powerful as ever. The President rattled off proposals to reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
Indeed, it is difficult to tell just how hard Johnson plans to fight for civil rights and antipoverty action, "Let us resolve now to do all we can with what we have," he said, noting that there were "heavy demands" on national resources. If his remarks indicate a willingness to see some things cut, there is no question about what the strengthened Republicans will attack. They will leave the war effort intact and rip into domestic programs, and it will take a determined President to defend expensive, controversial social legislation...
Apparecently be hopes, even expects, that day will come that tell of peasant and leaders battling the enemy until the leader dies, whereupon the peasants pick up the banner and fight on even more fervently. Mao accepts the first part of the story as his fate; China stagers today because be worries that the second part will not come true...
...such event is the Vietnam war. Observers disagree upheaval. They also disagree on which faction is more one in China is particularly sanguine about the, war factories, and the countryside," a thorough house cleaning before becoming involved in any direct military clash. In Mao's eyes, a fight with the United States is inevitable anyway. He apparently dreams old romantic dreams, like his friend in Taiwan, and sees himself waiting in the his with his nation's youth to snipe the American army to death-as it marches...