Word: hawkishly
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Despite New Hampshire's hawkish reputation, McCarthy held the President to 50 per cent of the vote, while scoring 41 per cent himself. With 85 per cent of the precincts reporting, Johnson had 21,239 votes to 17,109 for McCarthy...
When the more hawkish members of the YRs said that the bombing should not be stopped, Irwin Gaines '69, vice-president of the Club, said, "There's a very good reason to cease bombing--there are people being killed...
...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...
...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...