Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LBJ's committee on mental health has strongly recommended revision in the draft structure. Psychologists have stressed that draft pressure is a dangerous threat to the mental well-being of college students and has probably been a factor precipitating psychiatric difficulties...
Among those polled 94 per cent--478 students--disapproved of U.S. policy in Vietnam while only 6 per cent--31 students endorsed LBJ's policy. The classic reproach to this kind of statistic is that many of the students who disapprove of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam might do so on the grounds that the military effort should be increased. Not so. The poll reveals that only 1 per cent--six students--felt that "the military effort should be increased." The other 99 per cent are split as follows: 19 per cent--89 students--feel that "the military effort should...
...somewhat similar question, the CRIMSON poll found that 94 per cent of the seniors disapproved of LBJ's Vietnam stand. The ten per cent disparity can probably best be explained by considering the difference between the two samples. The Referendum, which covered a large age group and included women, asked questions of people who are not as vulnerable to the draft as seniors -- thus the result was slightly less radical...
...state party opposes Johnson and integration. The insurgents may try to win control of a convention in one or more of the heavily Negro counties. From each county convention, they could send insurgent delegations to the state convention. There, they could offer a series of embarrassing resolutions--supporting LBJ, equal opportunity, full Negro participation in party affairs, and whatever else is dear to the national Democrats and anathema to Mississippi...
...reportedly rebuffed by Gavin and Kennedy; he realized that McGovern, who is facing a hard fight for re-election to the Senate in 1968, could not possibly do it. Adamant in his search for an anti-war candidate, Lowenstein focused on persuading McCarthy, who was already deeply disturbed about LBJ and the War, to run. By mid-October, when Lowenstein visited Harvard in one of his frequent ten-state barnstorming tours, he was promising audiences that he had a candidate "of great prominence" who would announce his candidacy before Christmas. Many thought his optimism groundless. "Be patient," he cautioned them...