Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks. "They" also embraces Supreme Court Justices and bureaucrats in Washington, professors in colleges, and journalists almost anywhere. Wallace supporters feel that "they" have all taken too much control over their lives. In a curious way, the roots of the Wallace movement are entangled with those of the New Left. Both would welcome drastic change in institutions that seem aloof and unresponsive to their needs...
...think the Communists have been left unchecked in this country for so long, and I don't think the average American is aware of it," says Ron. "Look at the riots at Columbia and Berkeley. Who gains by all this? The Communists. It makes them gloat," Sally agrees and adds: "Mayor Daley handled it right. He was prepared. The Democratic Convention wasn't a fraternity initiation." Ron, a Lutheran, believes that there is too much permissiveness everywhere: "I would have gone to college if I had been spanked a few more times...
That caricature has tended to obscure what should be remembered as a highly distinguished military career. Fro the time of his boyhood in Columbus, LeMay was fascinated with flight. At Ohio State, he busied himself with ROTC In 1928 he obtained a reserve commission and left for a National Guard summer camp. His classmates tore off to Los Angeles for weekends, but LeMay in his singleminded fashion often hung back to vivisect engines and study weather charts and navigation. With his accumulating skill as pilot, mechanic and navigator, he was summoned after seven years in fighters to fly the first...
Gorey: Humphrey has a leadership problem too. He knows that if he wins, he will be a minority President. And that might make it difficult for him to lead the country, to get the alienated into right as the well as the disaffected left back into the mainstream. The men are different, their responses are different. Humphrey might burst into tears at hearing Russia was moving, into, say Rumania. But he'd recover, and quickly confront a cold political situation. Nixon would tackle it as a cold political situation from the beginning. There is a legitimate argument...
...analysts have played in Vietnam. From what I gather from friends in Washington, the CIA analysts come closer than anyone else to getting our government to see the absurdity of the Vietnam policy. Would these men have contributed more to themselves, to policy, to the government if they had left government service...