Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the fate of the desegregation efforts rested with Richard Nixon. House Republicans had cautiously straddled the issues during the Whitten debate, with Gerald Ford curiously silent about the GOP opposition philosophy. What Ford and his followers were waiting for was an official pronouncement from Nixon.
Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax...
His much-publicized opposition to the Johnson Administration is clearly gaining him votes. He appears in the voters' eyes to be more anti-Johnson than is Republican Gubbrud.
He is also a genial, personable man, as was evident from watching him campaign for several hours. In Madison, a small farm town in the eastern part of the state, he chatted easily yesterday with voters on Main Street and appeared to know many of them personally. He spoke about...
The commission's report criticized the "excessive force" used by the raiding police, the "attitude of authoritarianism" which the Columbia administration displayed and which "invited distrust," the "opposition between the administration and the faculty as rival bodies," and the "disruptive tactics" of the students who occupied five Columbia buildings.