Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have their own complaints and their own reasons for believing that Wallace can help. The addition of LeMay?Wallace's Agnew, in the view of many critics?will probably add to his appeal, particularly with those who are frustrated by the war. The general's inspection trip to Viet Nam this week will doubtless help Wallace's effort to convince voters that he has a grasp of world affairs?and, in fact, last week's speech on foreign policy before the National Press Club in Washington was reasonably restrained and cogent...
...talk rarely varies in content, but the format does. Wallace simply chooses from his compendium of evils as they come to mind. "Now I want to say something about Viet Nam," he will say by way of introduction, or "Let's talk about law 'n' order." While the crowd is cheering, he will often spit quickly and inconspicuously into a white handkerchief...
...deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy every work of man in North Viet Nam if that is what it takes." Such outbursts turned even formerly sympathetic military opinion against him, bidding, heavy-jowled, with a cigar customarily clenched between his teeth, LeMay unintentionally promoted his own image as a character from Dr. Strangelove...
...unorthodox methods to get out of the hole, and I think we're in that situation now. His critics charge that the "unorthodox method might employ is the H-bomb, and he has often sounded as if that is what he means. Not in regard to Viet Nam We don't need nuclear weapons in Viet Nam, porters last week. "I can't foresee any conditions under which we would." In books and speeches LeMay articulated a thoughtful approach to the problems of nuclear deterrents. He has never advocated the use of nuclear weapons except...
...Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again by his party's dissenters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh charged that his fellow Democrats in Washington had accomplished little during the past four years except deceive the public about the Viet Nam...