Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House now suggests, Hanoi's inquiries are intimations of hard bargaining to come, it is doubly vital for Washington and Saigon to show a common front. On the surface at least, Midway was just such a display...
...office, the disaffection has grown. Overspending on military items-notably the giant C-5A transport, the F-lll fighter-bomber, the Cheyenne helicopter-has drawn increasingly savage congressional fire. A newspaper advertisement suggests mockingly: "From the people who brought you Viet Nam-the anti-ballistic missile system." In a hard-hitting speech last week, the President came to the defense of the defenders-and by the aggressiveness of his counterattack almost certainly widened the polarization of American opinion...
...looking abroad, Nixon wanted to convince Hanoi, Peking, Moscow and the Viet Cong that the U.S. has not been so enfeebled by doubt that it will accept any terms in the Paris negotiations in order to get out of Viet Nam. There was no mistaking the President's hard line; it remains to be seen whether he succeeded in impressing it upon the Communists...
...views on the military. He first set them forth in the lead article in the June Harper's. Then he entered the Harper's article in the subcommittee-hearing record, along with his testimony. Last week the article also appeared as a book: 72 pages in hard cover for $3.95; 96 pages in paperback...
...tranquil campus that presented little risk of embarrassing disruption, though a few student protesters did in fact stage a peaceful mini-demonstration. The President praised youth's quest for honesty in public and private life. He defended the right to peaceful dissent. But he came down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance has no place in a free community. It denies the most fundamental of all the values we hold: respect for the rights...