Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Trudeau [Sept. 20]: Americans should all join together, face north, and shout "come on down...
...rank-and-file workers, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods of the North, are deserting the Democrats for the Wallace cause. Many Northern Democratic Congressmen are planning to instruct these voters how to split their tickets on Nov. 5 so that they can support Wallace without forgetting to pull levers for local Democrats. In the South, numerous conservative Democrats are openly allied with Wallace. Others are deserting to the G.O.P. Last week six cronies of Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, including State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that...
...been rumored to be Humphrey's first choice for Secretary of State. Once before, in 1966, he resigned from the Johnson Administration. As Under Secretary of State, the department's No. 2 man, he had tired of his losing role as principal opponent to the bombing of North Viet Nam. Eighteen months later, after the President ordered a substantial reduction of the bombing, Ball agreed to return as U.N. ambassador. The high point of his brief tenure-shortest of any U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.-was tongue-lashing the Russians for their Czechoslovakian invasion...
Humphrey claimed to be breaking new ground on the Vietnam issue by calling for a reevaluation of American commitments abroad and promising, if elected, to halt the bombing of the North. But on neither issue did the Vice-President genuinely dissociate himself from the stand of his predecessor...
...construction and delivery of the address were shrewdly designed to play up Humphrey's offer of a bombing halt, and to play down its conditional nature. But the text speaks for itself: "As President, I would stop the bombing of the North as an acceptable risk for peace... In weighing that risk--and before taking any action--I would place key importance on evidence of Communist willingness to restore the demilitarized zone..." The purposeful ambiguity of the section of text in which this sentence appears cannot disguise the fact that Humphrey, like Johnson, demands crucial concessions from the North Vietnamese...