Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted that President Andrew Johnson gave such an amnesty in 1868 to the former soldiers of the Confederate States of America. "Certainly, if we can take back men who bore arms against their country, we can take back men who objected to an immoral war," Cox said...
PRIOR TO the last week of this campaign, no President could have asked for a greater consensus on the issue of Vietnam than that which Lyndon Johnson received from the Presidential candidates. Vietnam, the most important issue of the campaign, was in fact no issue...
...Nixon's response to the halt was that Johnson, for political reasons, acted prematurely. The Republican candidate fears, according to his aides, that by acting without the consent of Saigon, Johnson has weakened America's position in Vietnam...
...Johnson is still willing to wait for strategic concessions, the end of the bombing will do little except make an inhumane war one notch less destructive. The United States must face the fact that the NLF has earned a right to a place in any post-war government; and it must recognize that should that government go communist, the whole free world will not collapse in a heap...
...Although Johnson's agreement to let the NLF sit at the conference table is a hopeful sign, it is still far from clear that he is willing to face these facts. Until he or his successors do, time will continue to take its toll while we wait for terms we have no right to demand...