Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These professors, with their hard analytical judgments and views of a world in which force must be played off against force, are naturally more suited to what Pipes called the "manipulativeness" of Nixon than McGovern's "righteous" stands. McGovern presents too great a departure from the presidential administrations that these men have studied and worked for. In many respects, he denies the assumptions that they have made their lives around. It is probably this more than anything else that prompts the annoyed resentment that these traditionally liberal scholars express...
...Americans have not raised their voices, I can only assume that Americans badly need something to cheer about rather than condemn; some reason to feel good about their country rather than to feel shame. Nixon has given us an overdose of sham and shame. My vote is for George McGovern, who offers us a change for the better. EMILY BING Cincinnati...
...never said Senator McGovern "should condemn Israel for its retaliatory raids on Lebanon." I did say that the Senator deplores the loss of life of civilian non-combatants anywhere, as do I. But George McGovern has made clear that only when all nations accept the existence of the state of Israel as a historic fact that no threat of terror or war can change will the bloodshed end and the work of building peace begin. GARY HART Campaign Director McGovern-Shriver Campaign Washington...
...will not arrest the bitter debate in the U.S. over whether that end might have come much sooner. The note was struck to cheers from a student audience in Iowa last week by George McGovern when he asked: "Why, Mr. Nixon, did you take another four years to put an end to this tragic war?" For McGovern and many Americans, the Thieu regime was so corrupt, the war so immoral, the cost in lives and national spirit so debilitating, that instant U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam had long since been justified. Nixon, of course, rejected unilateral withdrawal...
...theatrical domination of the press and TV, it helped turn a majority of Americans against the war. Probably its most enduring effect will be cultural rather than political?the development of alternative lifestyles, for example. Much of the political energy of the movement was subsumed by the McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism. In a sense, the war has ended by producing a basically antipolitical generation. Observes Political Scientist Richard Young: "More and more...