Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reappearance of dissent in the form of demands for U.S. troop withdrawals, whether immediate or on a specific timetable, reflects the war-weariness of a part of the U.S. public. In a sense that Nixon did not quite state, it does represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted...
...Administration proposes to let South Viet Nam's future be determined by free elections. This would meet President Nixon's bedrock condition for peace: that the South Vietnamese people be permitted to choose their own government, free of imposition by outsiders. It is a fine theory, and President Thieu supports it. The trouble with the theory is that whoever organizes elections in Viet Nam wins them. Hanoi cannot be expected to accept defeat at any elections the Thieu regime supervises-since the Communists are not defeated now. No doubt the North Vietnamese would like...
...cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American middle feels it is a victim of excessively rapid change. Richard Nixon saw that last year. City politicians are not missing the point either...
...abiding American, in Nixon's phrase, is "fed up to here" with violence. Procaccino also knows that large segments of the working class and middle class are weary of idealistic reformers who somehow manage to cast the ordinary white man in the fall guy's role. Even politicians who are not racist?as Procaccino and Marchi are not?can capitalize on this sentiment. Candidates can be swept into office solely on its strength. Circumstances vary from region to region, but some of the same factors appear. Thus Detective Charles Stenvig finds himself the mayor of Minneapolis, and Sam Yorty...
Some questions of ethics will linger for a while, and not a few Senators wish that President Nixon had sent them another nominee. Indiana's Birch Bayh and other liberals are at work digging into possible new conflict charges. But the most determined of Haynsworth's opponents now expect that the Judiciary Committee, which may vote this week, will recommend confirming the appointment. Haynsworth may not have his Supreme Court seat in time for the Oct. 6 opening of the court's fall sitting, but even the opposition to his appointment believes that after a floor debate...