Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phasing Out. On Viet Nam, California's Governor Ronald Reagan stood pretty much alone among prominent party men defending the hard line. He pooh-poohed the Paris peace talks as primarily Communist propaganda. He questioned the bombing limitation over North Viet Nam. In the text of his remarks before the Platform Committee, he underlined his hope that "we will fight...
...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
...armed aggression against the government of South Viet Nam and assurances that the South Vietnamese can go their own way in freedom. These goals are so far apart that many would agree with the judgment of Edwin Reischauer, Asian scholar and diplomat, who says in Beyond Vietnam: "It is hard to envisage at this stage a negotiated settlement that is not virtually a surrender by one side or the other...
...more votes than the population they currently control-perhaps getting as much as 35% of the vote in an early election. That might very well prove to be a plurality and, as the Saigon constitution is now written, would give them the country overnight-an outcome that would be hard for the U.S. to accept. If South Viet Nam ever does go Communist, the U.S. hopes that it would be only after a long political struggle...
...role vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia. The usually anti-American magazine suggested, of course, that the U.S. was not unnecessarily beyond this sort of behavior, particularly if the country in question were as near to the U.S. as Czechoslovakia is to Russia. Still, the New Statesman came down hard on the Russians: "One has only to consider this scenario to see how in-defensible-in terms of any principles ever upheld by men of integrity, including that of 'national sovereignty' so exalted in Moscow-is the Soviet pressure...