Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCloskey also finds himself in trouble with the student community for supporting Rehnquist (who was his debating partner at Law School). "He is a highly respected lawyer. It is not important to appoint someone to the Supreme Court because of his political opinions. We must divorce political views from legal decisions...
...McCloskey's strongest issues concern the Vietnam War, the military complex and the Nixon administration. He sees the Indochina War as the ultimate tragedy of Americans using their power against a people with whom they have no gripe. The tragedy is also a military one. "You can't run a retreat like this. Nobody wants his legs blown off in the last day of a war to save the president's pride." Sadly, bitterly, he explains that the Vietnam War is just that--a desperate effort to save the pride of a President. "He's got to be number...
...McCloskey's distaste for the Nixon Administration does not confine itself to Southeast Asian affairs. He indicts the administration for its arrogance and for its deception. "We have added lies and news management to become almost a way of life under the present administration." And he points to the SST, ABM and Amchitka controversies as prime examples of Administration lies...
...soldier who says he has been emotionally committed to the American Armed Forces for years, McCloskey is depressed by the degeneration of the military structure in the United States. Military leadership has foundered over the dual pressures of following the orders of superiors and looking out for its men. He decries the criteria for success that military leadership has set up. "Search and destroy and body counts are such shameful things for soldiers to follow that it's incredible...
When the tumult of campaign subsides for a moment, McCloskey himself seems unclear about his future. It's not the kind of movement that is likely to succeed. His candidacy, a frenzied expression of acute frustration backed by little money, a small organization and few definitive domestic programs, he often seems gloomy about the outcome...