Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clifford has made no secret of his annoyance with the Saigon regime for its stalling on the peace talks. Last week the conference was still deadlocked over the shape of the conference table to be provided for the parties-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong. Clifford erupted on TV: "I am becoming inordinately impatient with the continued deaths of American boys in Viet Nam. I would like to get going at the Paris conference...
...hardly mollified. The Secretary of Defense, he declared, had "shown a gift of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time." At a reception in his honor, Ky went farther. "Do you ever hear the Russians or the Chinese criticizing North Viet Nam?" he fumed. "My problem is I have to fight not only my enemies but also my so-called friends. Those who talk are not especially my friends. They sometimes talk too much. They think that by insulting me they will make me change my mind. They make a mistake. I would like them to shut...
...Helms, 55, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The first CIA career man to head the agency, Helms has earned a reputation as a quiet, impartial professional during his ZVi years as director. He has not hesitated to express dissenting views within Administration councils (including pessimism about Viet Nam), and is noted for his candor in private congressional hearings. Except for the furor in early 1967 over the funding of private organizations, a practice Helms inherited, he has managed to keep the agency out of public controversy...
...worked earnestly for disarmament, and toward the end of his life he was still dauntlessly touring the U.S., a rumpled figure on college platforms and at socialist gatherings. Thomas opposed the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "We must stop thinking that God has called us to be policemen," he said. "You never had a more high-minded intervener than Woodrow Wilson. But I don't notice it worked so well. Wilson wanted to be very righteous. You know, he felt that he and God thought very much alike...
...Left and New. Yet he argued that war critics had a duty to offer realistic suggestions about how the U.S. might extricate itself from Viet Nam. As elder statesman of the Old Left, he viewed the New Left with some mistrust. Said Thomas: "I by no means denounce all civil disobedience, but some of the forms of it advocated and practiced by some members of the New Left seem to me to do more harm than good to the cause of peace...