Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IT is never easy to determine when a turning point has come in the tide of war (or of history or politics). During the decade since the French were defeated at Dienbienphu, TIME has carried 14 cover stories on the Vietnamese conflict, at times reporting hope and at others near...
It will not be an easy road to find. Smothered under the blanket of Lyndon Johnson's father-of-all-the-peopleism, the G.O.P. is statistically so far behind that many years may go by before it gets its head up. Top Republicans talk publicly of picking up 40...
President Johnson condemned the demonstrations by indicating his "surprise" that any citizen's views are inconsistent with "the national interest." Granted, President Johnson received an overwhelming mandate, but the policy of one administration is by no means necessarily synonymous with the national interest. If President Johnson has raised the Communist...
Courting the Negroes. In a once militantly white-supremacist state, the candidate's moderation on racial issues is due in large part to Virginia's growing Negro electorate, now 200,000 strong, whose overwhelming support for Lyndon Johnson last year swung Virginia to a Democratic presidential candidate for...
Wilson won easy and overwhelming approval for his support of the U.S. in Viet Nam, despite the now familiar demands from some left-wing M.P.s for a softer line. He also had little trouble winning support for his government's proposal to limit Commonwealth immigration. A tougher nut, however...