Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, and even now, I think this logic made sense. As election analysts Scammon and Wattenberg have noted, the "social issue" was particularly powerful in 1970. Many working class whites--who had real doubts about our activities in Indochina--ended up supporting hawkish candidates because of their displeasure with student disruptions. If the blue collar workers in New York City knew what James Buckley stood for in the 1970 Senate election, he never would have gotten 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. A number of liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right...
...Neill used to commute weekly to Cambridge from Washington, going up on Thursday night and returning on the Monday night sleeper. The family loved to linger over dinner, arguing politics for hours. Listening to his children, O'Neill began to have doubts about his hawkish party-line stand on Viet...
Behind Rockefeller's ignominious silence on Vietnam is a more consistently hawkish record than that of any other candidate, except perhaps Nixon. The Rockefeller Brothers report of 1958, in which Nelson played a major role, was an effort to pressure the Eisenhower administration into larger arms expenditures for Pax Americana policies. The Kennedy Administration's boost in arms expenditures, development of "flexible response" for limited wars, and its more belligerent foreign policies all met with Rockefeller's approval, though he did not think Kennedy went far enough. Rockefeller was for a second try at Castro after the Bay of Pigs...
...campaign should prove bitter, with hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
...fund-raising campaign in the U.S. ($1 billion) and partly because the Israeli economy continued to function through the war without major dislocation. Nonetheless, he may well find it necessary to mute his dovish instincts within a post-election Cabinet that will probably be facing a bigger Likud-led hawkish opposition in the Knesset...