Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Presidential aide McGeorge Bundy began to shed some of his hawkish plumage on Saturday--advocating an unconditional halt to the bombing of North Vietnam by next year at the latest and a unilateral withdrawal of at least 100,000 American troops from South Vietnam...
...speech this weekend, he supported the call of the minority plank at the Democratic National Convention for an unconditional halt to the bombing, commenting that "the risk to our own troops can be minimized by alternative means of defense and if necessary by alternative deployments...
...Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that 1) Hanoi was in no mood to reciprocate; 2) the enemy would take advantage of such a halt to step up supply convoys to the South; and 3) it would be immensely difficult, politically speaking, to resume the bombing if Hanoi failed to respond...
...pronouncement was at best an insignificant deviation from Johnson's "San Antonio formula" of a year ago or the President's New Orleans speech last month. In both statements, the President emphasized that some reciprocity from Hanoi was necessary before the U.S. could undertake a bombing halt...
...Pray. Hughes' approach to issues is often not exactly to lowans' taste. His advocacy of a bombing halt in North Viet Nam does not sit too well with Hawkeye State voters. Even placid Iowa is concerned about law and order. Stanley stresses law enforcement, "including civil rights laws," while Hughes underlines justice as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college...