Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last March, students at Cornell pressed Sen. Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) to make a clear statement on Vietnam. He replied that, although he deplored the killing, he did not want to say anything that would interfere with Nixon's bargaining position in the Paris peace talks. But, he added, if nothing had changed in six months, he would support rapid withdrawal from Vietnam...
...even though his bill to end the war is innovative and admirable, it will lose. And were it to pass both Houses of Congress, we all know Nixon would veto it. The bill is meant to be a forceful gesture, rather than a concrete action-but that fact is the basic problem with the whole system Goodell is working in. The best a man with good intentions can do is make a forceful gesture. If he is lucky, an important bill he has introduced may pass. But then the President must approve it, and a presidential appointed must enforce...
...postcards read: "Mr. Nixon: Forty thousand Americans are dead, and how many Vietnamese? Yet we spend $100 million a day killing even more. Bring our men and dollars back home so we can fight the real enemies-disease and human misery. Get us out within six months...
President Nixon has violated his promise to the American people and chosen to pursue the discredited policies of Lyndon Johnson. We must stand together, he tells us to secure an "honorable" peace. In attempts to appease his opponents and buy time for his disastrous policies, the President has announced token troop withdrawals and illusory draft cuts...
...passed his 75th birthday and again after President Nixon was elected, Hershey insisted he had no intention of resigning despite the mounting pressure, He has influential old friend in the Congress and many others feared to attack him because of his patriotic image...