Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What this country does not need in the White House is a glib, loose-tongued quipster. Haven't we had enough of loose spending, loose living, loose criminals, loose courts, loose sacrificing of lives in Viet Nam, loose erosion of our freedoms and loose toleration of obvious subversion...
WHILE the world waited anxiously for some promise of peace in Viet Nam, Associate Editor Ronald Kriss, who wrote this week's cover story, felt that he was entitled to some extra measure of impatience. The special publishing deadlines of a pre-election issue meant that all stories had to be written and edited at an accelerated pace; the probability of a bombing halt only compounded the need for speed. But Kriss, along with Senior Editor Michael Demarest and Researcher Mary Kelley, were as prepared as possible for the unpredictable. For months, they have been studying every nuance...
...Viet Nam war has divided and demoralized the American people as have few other issues in this century. It led, on March 31, to Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of the presidency in the realization that he might well have been defeated for reelection. Its steadily growing cost was perhaps the greatest single obstacle to Johnson's hopes of building a Great Society for the U.S. in its cities, countryside and classrooms. The war's ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than...
...televised address to the nation that may rate as the high point of his career, the President announced: "I have now ordered that all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Viet Nam cease," effective twelve hours after he spoke. "What we now expect-what we have a right to expect-are prompt, productive, serious and intensive negotiations." When those negotiations resume in Paris this week, the morning after the U.S. elections, representatives of both the Saigon government and the Viet Cong are expected to take part-though Johnson emphasized that the Communists' participation "in no way involves...
More than any other phase of the Viet Nam war, the bombing of the North aroused emotional opposition both in the U.S. and abroad. But ending it was not an easy decision. By holding back the U.S. bombers, Johnson risked repudiating a major element of his own policy. But he also assured his reemergence, in his final months in office, from under the war's clouds...