Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sept. 10: Rusk says there are "large and difficult questions" to be resolved in Paris. Johnson says stopping the bombing would endanger U.S. lives near...
...Eventually he chose to fight liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
Foes of the Viet Nam war bitterly remember the 1964 election in which many voted for Johnson because he promised peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both...
Freedom from any such pressure has blinded the nonvoters to a key point. A leader can shape the country's moral choices by taking a no-compromise stand on a great issue, such as the Viet Nam war. Both McCarthy and Lyndon Johnson did just that, risking their political careers in the process. But voters have a different role: to convey their positions through the ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with...
...liberal Democratic dove among Ida ho's conservatives is a rara avis indeed. But Frank Forrester Church has al ways been something special. At 32, he was the youngest man in the U.S. Sen ate. Now 44, he has won a nationwide reputation as one of President Johnson's most adamant critics on Viet Nam. It is a posture that does not sit well with some Idahoans. He is also bucking a G.O.P. tide that seems certain to deliver the state to Nixon. Yet even his enemies concede that Church is likely to win a third term, defeating...