Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are not tranquil times for the U.S. Protest on every hand makes depressing reading when autumn colors and football and the World Series beckon. Yet division and dissatisfaction are unalterable facts of life these days. Because they can-indeed must-be brought to light, they bear testimony to the essential strength of American society...
...practitioners of Realpolitik in the Nixon Administration, the peace movement is just as infuriating, if for different reasons. They bear the enormous responsibility of liquidating an increasingly obvious mistake not of their making; they must be concerned about the consequences of a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world; they must remember the fact that the U.S. has global responsibilities that cannot be torn up like a draft card. To Richard Nixon, the M-day protest must seem especially unfair. He has tried hard to settle the war, and he worked out a plan...
...reasons that echo around many campuses and communities. "Bringing a few troops home is only a numbers game to appease college students," he contends. "But they can't be appeased. We will settle for nothing but an end. We are on a course of unilateral withdrawal and it must be speeded up. It is a bad war and we have to get out. Too many lives are being lost...
...Nixon Administration has made a miscalculation. Its policy so far has been predicated on the assumption that conciliatory steps by the U.S. would induce concessions by the Communists. "Sure the Paris talks may be a drag," concedes one senior official in Washington. "But everyone seems to agree that they must be kept going." The most optimistic view of the negotiations is that, however unproductive they have been so far, they still give each side a chance to gauge the intent of the other and to search for the elusive signal that could point the way toward peace...
Basic Tactic. The message is unlikely to have much effect on the course of legislation. It would be astonishing if the White House really expected that it would. Rather, it sets the basic Republican tactic as politicians begin thinking about next year's congressional elections: the G.O.P. must stop its internal bickering and concentrate on the real enemy, the do-nothing Democrats who control Congress...