Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agrees with Nixon on most domestic issues, criticizing many federal spending programs. Like Nixon ?until recently?he has also in the past voiced "100% support" for the present war policy and expressed skepticism about improved relations with the Communist world. He will meet Nixon's demand for a hard-working campaigner. Nixon thought Henry Cabot Lodge was not energetic enough in 1960. The Marylander's credentials as a potential President and an expert on urban affairs?two of Nixon's other stated criteria in making his choice?are less convincing. He has no background at all in foreign affairs...
...Humphrey seemed temporarily to be experimenting with a different strategy. The day of Nixon's nomination, the Vice President drove from his home in Waverly, Minn., to Minneapolis, where he delivered a stem-winding, hard-line speech on the war and domestic violence. "If I'm President," he told a convention of National Catholic War Veterans, "there won't be a sellout in South Viet Nam. We can no more afford to let aggressors abroad get their way than we can let lawbreakers at home get their...
...accident that killed a host of Ky supporters finally pushed the Vice President into the background (TIME, June 21), and the President has quickly consolidated his position by a succession of shrewd maneuvers that have removed remaining Ky backers from influential posts. These days Thieu is working hard to broaden the base of support for the presidency. He takes trips into the countryside, where he is virtually unknown. He consults more often with political leaders and the National Assembly. He prods the military and civilian establishments to prepare for the day when the South Vietnamese will have to take...
Buoyed by President Johnson's assurances last month in Honolulu of continued U.S. support, Thieu has been preaching a hard line on the war and against negotiations with the Communists that lends a considerable air of unreality to some of his pronouncements. He has left much of the country's day-to-day administration to Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, a onetime schoolteacher widely respected for his political acumen and his honesty. Huong moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 7 Thong Nhut (Unity Street) eleven weeks ago, with the warning that corruption, a problem...
...lacks the power to bring about sweeping reforms. Province chiefs, who hold important positions in the patronage system, are appointed by the President. Thieu has sacked 16 of them, but Huong would clearly like to see more relieved. So, too, would Thieu, but competent replacements are hard to find. Old avenues of corruption persist as well. Draft exemptions can still be bought: it costs only $425 to become a secret-police agent or $250 to join the Regional Forces and thus escape regular army service. And big names still enjoy protection. Not long ago, an ARVN colonel was charged with...