Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost. Another mistake, he feels, was failing to institute censorship?not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the enemy from knowing what the U.S. was going to do next. As for trying to hide the troop buildup, L.B.J.'s rationale is that he was trying to avoid inflaming hawk sentiment in the U.S. and to avoid goading Hanoi into calling on the Communist Chinese for help...
...begun in 1961, Kissinger became an enthusiastic supporter of the American intervention, believing it necessary for the United States to demonstrate its power in that tender spot on the globe. In 1965, he began consulting for the State Department on the government's pacification program, and remained a conventional hawk until 1966, when he traveled to Vietnam at the request of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. As a result of that visit, he decided, as one colleague later put it, "that the thing was un-do-able," and he became convinced of the U. S. need to withdraw...
Washington Senator Henry Jackson, the Democrats' hawk hopeful, has discovered that there are other perils to running for the presidency a year too early. A Jackson supporter in the Washington legislature came up with an amendment calling for a presidential primary that would take place one week before the Oregon primary. Jackson would be a sure thing in Washington; that would give him a psychological boost for Oregon, and the combined momentum might then carry him to a crucial primary victory in California. By this plan Jackson would go to the convention with a formidable bag of Western delegates...
...York. New Mexico has nothing to do with an old namesake in Europe. Rivers are water not bridges. But because we did not believe it we ignored it. What is frightening is that we ignore small natural circumstances without understanding the consequences. We can ignore gravity-but Kitty Hawk complete in a C-5A? There was still something not too bad when the trains had cow-catchers. Today it is inconceivable that they would slow down for anything. They run sterile on their tracks, with no response and no meaning to the landscape. We move our minds and hands...
...well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than Ky, who styles himself "an ex-hawk turned dove" these days but is still basically an opportunist in search of a real constituency...