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Furthermore, Muskie avoided mention of the fact, that he had been a strong proponent of the war during the Johnson Administration, and had even been the first speaker for the pro-war, pro-Administration Vietnam plank at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968. All this didn't matter, Muskie tried to tell us: all three had voted for Tonkin, so all three stood similarly...
...reality, the laws about saluting the flag were not a major plank in my platform. Included in my platform were the more important issues of drug education, revision of the negative discipline code, rearrangement of the educational priorities (from administrator back to teacher), creation of an enhanced parent-teacher partnership, utilization of the schools for recreational purposes, and the instigation of a program to eliminate racial tension...
VIET NAM. In January 1966, after visiting Indochina, Muskie warned against further escalation and urged negotiations to end the war. Thereafter he privately pressed President Johnson to stop bombing North Viet Nam-but backed the 1968 Democratic majority plank on the war, a politically motivated step that he is not proud of. A year later he called for "orderly" U.S. withdrawal. In 1971 Muskie at first refused for technical reasons to support the McGovern-Hatfield amendment demanding a complete U.S. pullout by the end of 1971; having received considerable pressure, he now supports the amendment. The Republican national chairman, Senator...
...final day of the convention, all the libertarian candidates were defeated and every libertarian plank was rejected. As the voting on the final plank-advocating active resistance to the draft-ended, an anarchist grabbed a microphone in the center of the hall. He asserted that it was the right of any person to defend himself or herself from violence, including the violence of the state, and took what was apparently a draft card from his wallet. Then, standing high on a chair, he brought a cigarette lighter to the card...
...HANGING on the rough plank wall of nearly every black sharecropper's shack in Wilcox County, Alabama, are dime-store pictures of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy. ( Jesus Christ is hanging there too, but he doesn't fit into the story yet. ) The relatively conservative blacks of the rural South worship these three charismatic men, as overly moderate as they may seem to us. But now King, Kennedy, and Kennedy are dead; there is no one to follow. Now we have benign neglect. With the war, northern urban political repression, campus struggles, and ecology, civil rights...