Word: mckinleyism
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While Morse was not alone in calling for an end to U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam's affairs, he certainly was in a minority. Among those taking the opposite view were former U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. Lodge called such a course "the most dangerous and imprudent" the U.S. could take and equated it with "getting out of West Berlin." Dirksen foresaw that "the rank of the United States in the Orient would plummet" if the U.S. pulled...
...every area in the University united behind Lyndon Johnson. Not since the election of William McKinley in 1896 has a major party candidate been so devastated so unanimously in a Harvard straw poll. That year William Jennings Bryan raised the same issue of East versus West sectionalism that Barry Goldwater has raised in this election; apparently the only issue which draws together, and unites even the Law and Business Schools, even the Faculty and the freshmen...
...William McKinley 1489, Palmer 327, William Jennings Bryan...
...William McKinley...
...perfectly placed lob that landed smack on the base line for the winning point. After that, Ralston seemed to collapse; Stolle quickly ran out the set for a 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 9-11, 6-4 victory. Next day, as expected, Roy Emerson polished off Chuck McKinley, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4-and the Davis Cup was on its way back to Australia...