Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven't used the diplomatic and economic levers we have with the Soviet Union to try to get a settlement. 3.) Our policy of training South Vietnamese is still failing to bring about the desired results; we aren't operating the pacification program very well. 4.) Our leadership has failed to explain the war to the American people...
...everyone's personal history, it is important to make them clear now and to act on them now. It is a fine thing to stir up moral indignation. Perhaps it will get those who care sufficiently upset to think seriously about avoiding service in this war. All the leadership -- wherever it is -- in the movement here has succeeded in doing is confusing people. At a time when solidarity as well as coherence is all-important, SDS, for all its highly-touted organizational abilities, still suffers from a kind of backlash prejudice, and its substantive activities this year have been...
...Goldwater debacle. George Romney bored him, Charles Percy faded, and Morton talked up Nelson Rockefeller to his friends. Lately he had become resigned to having a Richard Nixon ticket. Optimistic friends hoped that with an influx of G.O.P. moderates next year, Morton might even oust Dirksen from the Senate leadership. An innately shy man, Morton saw little hope. His despair was heightened by the illness of his wife and a growing dread that the G.O.P. would again be tagged with racism, irresponsibility and defeat...
...Last week John Summerskill, 42, resigned after two years as president of San Francisco State, home of one of the nation's first student-initiated "free colleges" and a campus noted for its unorthodox ways. Lamenting the "financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned to the people's fears of increased taxation, of violence in the streets, of dissent on the campus. No state leader encourages the people to have pride in their great university, to build and strengthen the fine state colleges...
...election is going to cause a pinch from the party for funds," Kelley said. "There will have to be a good deal of active leadership to provide them, or the club could completely disintegrate. I'd like to see big names come here to debate or discuss the issues with Faculty members and students, rather than just lecture to them as a means of raising money. A genuine effort must be made to justify the respect and influence we still have around the country," he said...