Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBERT H. EBERT, Dean of the Medical School, was on a street corner in downtown Boston for three hours handing out postcards with a group of anti-war doctors. Ebert said that a large number of Med School faculty and students helped give out the postcards, which ask President Nixon to withdraw American troops. By the end of the day, the doctors had handed out more than 100,000 cards...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, spoke at several rallies. Though Galbraith continued to attack President Nixon's Vietnam policy, he cautioned against demands for immediate withdrawal...
...those who support President Nixon. People opposed to the Moratorium displayed flags. drove with their car headlights on, and listened to speeches. Sen. Barry Voldwater (R-Ariz.) told one crowd in Anaheim, California, that "Moratorium participants are playing into the hands of those whose business it is to kill American fighting...
Despite continual picketing and sporadic outbreaks of violence in front of the White House. President Nixon spent yesterday ignoring the Vietnam War Moratorium. Nixon made no statement on the war or the protest and devoted most of his day to consideration of Latin American affairs...
...only official Administration reaction to the Moratorium came on Tuesday in a speech by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. After a conference with Nixon, Agnew asked the Moratorium leaders to repudiate a letter from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong. The letter expressed hope that the nationwide demonstrations would bring an end to American participation...