Word: hawkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while. Some intellectuals have even gone so far as to suggest that time would be better spent working for the election of Nelson Rockefeller. (Rockefeller, despite the silence he has maintained on Vietnam during his coy search for the Republican nomination over the past year, has a hawkish record which rivals that of Richard Nixon...
...cautious disposition to wait and see. A new sympathy for President Johnson's burdens was widely evident. Concerning the war, as Connecticut Representative Donald J. Irwin observed after visiting his Fourth Congressional District, "it seems that the doves have become more dovish and the hawks have become more hawkish in the last few weeks." Adds Irwin, a supporter of current U.S. policy: "I've found very little voter sentiment in favor of pulling out of Viet...
...latest Viet Cong offensive in Viet Nam left the U.S. press as divided as ever on the subject of the war. And perhaps even more so. Mostly, the attacks on the cities served as a magnifying lens; doves grew more dovish, hawks more hawkish, undecideds more undecided. Across the country, the division was more or less even between each of the three attitudes...
...demonstrated by the attacks, said the determinedly antiwar St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is the "hollowness of the Saigon government's pretensions to sovereignty in the cities, the fraud of our Government's claims of imminent victory, and the basic untenability of the American military position." The more hawkish Houston Post took a different view of the attacks. "Except for the loss of life," said the paper, "the raids would have had a comic book character. They were reminiscent of the raids upon the American naval vessels by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II. One is almost forced...
Before the general election in 1966 Hatfield had clearly stated a dove position on Vietnam. Duncan was convinced that Hatfield's stand on Vietnam had disturbed enough voters so that a hawkish Democart could possibly defeat this seemingly unbeatable Governor. Hatfield retreated to a more ambiguous stand. This, plus Morse's endorsement, may have pulled out his narrow victory...