Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Political terrorism!" retorted Tunney. Indeed, it seemed that Murphy was guilty of the same miscalculation as Nixon in overplaying the stone-throwing incident. San Jose Police Chief Raymond Blackmore deflated the Republican attack a bit by arguing that the extent of the violence had been exaggerated?Santa Clara County, including San Jose, voted for Tunney. How much the backfire amounted to was academic, however. Tunney already had established himself as firm on law-and-order by urging pay raises for police and taking an occasional ride in a police cruiser. Tunney's opponent in the Democratic primary, George Brown, represented...
...President's harsh campaign line -in effect denouncing the Democrats as the party of permissiveness and charging them with being soft on violence -was typified in his Phoenix speech. In it, he leaned heavily on the incident during which his car was stoned by a mob in San Jose. Telecast again by the Republican National Committee on election eve, it became the party's campaign windup. Though the President sees things differently, there is considerable evidence that the speech did Republican candidates more harm than good. To many voters, the whole approach evidently suggested the rhetoric...
...fellow Americans, in a less critical time for our country, the temptation would be great to exploit the San Jose incident for partisan purposes. But we have gone beyond the point where social unrest and violence can be so used. It is not enough merely to denounce violence-everyone denounces it. There is no point in uttering angry words however justified -America is already afflicted by too much anger. It would be easy, indeed, to blame the disturbance at San Jose and others like it on a climate of permissiveness created by my political opponents. Even...
...different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary conservatives into their rabid finest, John Tunney beat George Murphy and Ronald Reagan won a far less than landslide victory...
...Nixon decides his law and order message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...