Word: isolationist
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...conservative in many ways. The wry, witty Minnesotan, like Rockefeller and Nixon, would emphasize state and local responsibilities over federal control, and decentralize the office of the presidency, delegating many more duties to the Cabinet. Indeed, even his antiwar stand links aspects of conservatism with liberalism, appealing to residual isolationist sentiment on the right...
...Harvard has had some kind of undergraduate military instruction since the early nineteenth century, and its three ROTC units are today among the oldest in the nation. These units were conceived in the atmosphere of internationalism which for many years was Harvard's political character in an isolationist America. The original Army unit was formed largely in response to widespread student demand, when, in late 1915, 1200 men of Harvard enlisted in a new drill unit within a few days of its creation. When ROTC programs were created by the Navy 1926) and the Air Force (1947), the University applied...
...argued or voted against the 1964 civil rights bill, the Peace Corps and Medicare. He had been critical of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy in the ideological wars of the 1950s and had maintained a moderate internationalism on the Foreign Relations Committee-even up to the neo-isolationist present. Asked recently by President Johnson what was wrong with the committee, Hickenlooper said: "There are 19 men on it and they represent 21½ different opinions." The one piece of legislation that carries his name- the Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill-cuts off aid to any country...
Buying Time. The professors deplored "the recent rise of isolationist sentiment in the U.S.," and the fact that "many Americans find Asia remote and marginal to their interests." As for what the nation's position should be, "The ability to develop and defend policies attuned to limited objectives-including a policy of limited war-has become the vital test of the U.S. today. Our opponents count upon our impatience, our impetuousness, our immaturity. They must be proven wrong...
Last June, Reischauer started work on Beyond Vietnam. Fearing above all that the frustrations of Vietnam might inspire a right wing isolationist reaction in this country, Reischauer has tried to strike a middle ground between isolation and escalation. Urging the government to seek negotiations rather than a military victory, he argued that further bombing of the North could do little beyond creating a second guerrilla theater. On the other hand, he maintains in his book, if we pull out immediately "in our eagerness to save American lives and stop the carnage, we might help produce such instability in Asia...