Word: mexican-american
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...Texas. Still, John B. Connally might have given it a try if only his old friend Lyndon Johnson had taken him aside to plead: "John, we need you. Please run again next year." The President, mindful of Connally's virulent unpopularity among the state's sizable Mexican-American population, apparently merely shrugged and said: "John, it's up to you." So John decided to quit. In Texas, where party politics is only slightly more refined than saloon fighting, his decision not to seek re-election was an invitation to a bare-knuckled brawl...
Strike Leader Cesar Chavez, a portly, near-paranoid disciple of Agitator Saul Alinsky, insisted that no Anglos could ever understand the confusion of injustices that his Mexican-American workers had been suffering. Anglo growers maintained that the workers had never had it so good. Both sides were partially right, but when the strikers began firing 4,000 marbles from slingshots and growers started dusting the picket lines with insecticides, right had clearly given way to wrath...
Shocked Administration. After graduating from Millbrook at the head of his class, Bill studied briefly at the University of Mexico, then was drafted into the Army in 1944. Assigned to intelligence work along the Mexican border, he arrived the day the Japanese surrendered, and spent most of his time lecturing Mexican-American recruits on personal hygiene. After his discharge, he went to Yale, where he taught Spanish and toured with the debating team. Very large on campus (Torch Honor Society, Fence Club, Elizabethan Club, Skull and Bones), he became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his junior year...
...world, papers presented to the Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...
...more impressive when measured against the country's history. For dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing...