Word: nixon
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...Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is to continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam...
Things are going well for the anti-war movement just now and it is tempting to believe that nothing Nixon can do now will be able to stem the tide. But we would do well to remember how easily President Johnson was able to stop the peace marches by opening the peace talks at Paris: today's Moratorium is the first large-scale nation-wide Vietnam protest in nearly two years...
President Nixon and his advisors are not yet convinced that the American people will settle only for immediate withdrawal; currently, the White House seems to feel that retaining some 200,000 American troops in Vietnam for ten years or more can be made acceptable to the American people. To disabuse them of this notion will probably require, at the least. months of mass demonstrations in favor of immediate withdrawal, and a greater percentage of Americans supporting such a policy than the 57 per cent reported in the last Gallup poll...
Politicians in this country are out of touch with the people, Stone said, and pictured President Nixon as "a shallow man with a Cabinet of one-dimensional...
Several groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars. have encouraged their members to fly American flags during the day as a counter action to the demonstration. Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) has called on Americans to drive with their headlights on during the day to show their support for Nixon's policies...