Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They wear tennis shoes only on tennis courts. They don't read Robert Welch or hate Negroes. They aren't nuclear-bomb throwers, and they don't write obscene letters to editors who disagree with them. They are reasonably well-educated and informed. They are, in fact, nuts about Barry Goldwater without being nutty in the process...
Among many Republicans, most Democrats, and nearly all foreign observers, the overriding concern is that Goldwater would bumble into a nuclear war through carelessness or plain pigheadedness. "Can you imagine what would have happened if Goldwater had been in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis?" asked an aide of Michigan Governor George Romney. The aide thereupon touched a lighted cigarette to an inflated balloon...
...platform fight was the dwindling anti-Goldwater platoon's final, forlorn hope. It wanted planks denouncing extremist groups, calling for "effective enforcement" of the 1964 civil rights law, and reaffirming the policy that only the President of the U.S. should be authorized to order the use of nuclear weapons...
What was Goldwater's thinking as to whether control of the use of nuclear weapons should be in hands other than the President's? Patiently, Barry said that he had been misquoted, that U.S. law allows no one but the President to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, and "I can't change that law." Anyhow, he continued, he would favor giving only the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe-presently General Lyman Lemnitzer-a degree of authority about nuclear weapons. He carefully explained that he was not talking about long-range, strategic missiles, but rather about...
Homely Principles. Lest anyone think such penny pinching had jeopardized the nation's military strength, McNamara ticked off some impressive signs of his stewardship: >Nuclear warheads in the strategic alert forces...