Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Straw-Man Issue. If his career-officer listeners should find their commitment to meet U.S. world responsibilities "derided as a form of militarism," said Nixon, they must "recognize that strawman issue for what it is." Nixon then set up his own straw men, "the skeptics and the isolationists." When the first explorers set out from Europe toward the New World, he said disdainfully, "these men would have weighed the risks, and they would have stayed behind." When pioneers set out from the East Coast colonies into the interior, "these men would have counted the costs, and they would have stayed...
...right of every man in the race." He is cautious about the risks of his new calling. "It's very dangerous for your soul to be a politician," he 'says, "because if you get power it can lead you to perdition faster than almost any other form of human activity...
December 4: The CEP, considering what ROTC proposal it should submit to the Faculty, informally agreed to recommend that the Faculty form a special committee to investigate ROTC...
Avon House got the big No form Yale. The Yale Admissions Office, which complained that it was having a hard time just opening the letters from female students seeking admission, said that it could not accept the 18-member Avon House community, since none of the seniors in the group would be at Yale long enough to get a degree...
...three-day strike to protest the use of police. The group sent out a list of demands including dropping criminal charges against arrested demonstrators, keeping police off the campus, holding a binding referendum on ROTC, and restructuring the Corporation. SDS held it sown meeting at night and decided to form separate picket lines...