Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kuchel's speech probably changed no minds; few speeches on Viet Nam ever do. But it did prompt Morton and Cooper to "clarify" their own demands for a bombing halt by explaining that they would not approve of such a step if it left U.S. servicemen in jeopardy...
...will be any safer from amphibious attacks from other "third world" powers. But it is not impossible that LBJ has decided to use the Vietnam war budget to provide secret funds for a new network of underwater electronic barriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Rio Grande to halt all future North Vietnamese infiltration...
...ordeal in Viet Nam, and that the options are growing fewer. The President's determination to stay the course promises a sorely trying year for the nation. Even Lyndon Johnson's well-hedged hint of another bombing pause should raise no undue hopes. Nor, if the halt is ordered, is there any guarantee that it will move Hanoi any nearer to the conference table than the six previous suspensions of the air war in the North. Nonetheless, conscience and practical politics alike dictate that the Administration devise and pursue every conceivable alternative to warfare within its power. Some...
Johnson has everything to gain by succumbing to this pressure. By stopping the bombing he will rob his critics of their strongest argument. But, argue the hawks, there is no reason to stop the bombing. A halt would not bring Hanoi to the conference table; it would only result in increased American casualties as the North Vietnamese take advantage of the pause...
...black Rolls-Royce eased to a halt outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, and out stepped the legislature's guest of honor-dressed in a tattered coat, baggy pants with wide suspenders, and a long, lachrymose mouth curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after...