Word: planned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacks did not yet mean serious congressional trouble for Nixon, nor did they necessarily indicate that the patience of much of the rest of America had yet run out on the President. But Nixon seemed visibly on the defensive at his press conference. He bluntly dismissed the Goodell cutoff plan as representing "a defeatist attitude." He said it would preclude any movement toward peace until that cutoff date, since "any incentive for the enemy to negotiate is destroyed if he is told in advance if he just waits for 18 months, we'll be out anyway." Nixon seemed goaded...
...Viet Nam," said Harris. "I'm afraid that Mr. Nixon is rapidly losing the advantage he had by virtue of the fact that he could say, 'I didn't start this war.' I'm very alarmed that he really doesn't have a plan. His plan is a kind of Micawberism that maybe something will turn...
Vance, one of the Johnson Administration's peace negotiators in Paris, calls "a standstill cease-fire." This would be an agreement that all military forces would freeze in present positions and assume a defensive stance. The plan would also guarantee the Communists de facto political control over the areas of South Viet Nam that they occupy and ultimately, perhaps, a chance to elect representatives to a national Parliament. It would, in effect, legalize the realities of the military situation and amount to an uncontiguous partitioning of South Viet Nam, sometimes known as the "leopard spot" plan. But even...
Resolved, this Faculty expresses its opposition to the war in Vietnam. While as individuals we differ in detail, this body agrees that the most reasonable plan for peace is the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops. We join in a united and continuous national effort to bring our troops home...
...stumble into yet another cataclysm sometime this fall. Like by October 15, and certainly by the November march on Washington that is bound to follow. Poor Richard is likely to feel quite threatened, as he did at last week's news conference where he said that Senator Goodell's plan to end the war by the end of 1970 might endanger his own efforts to end it sooner. When he's boxed into a corner, a man does strange things. And we're all heading for the same goddamn corner at a godawful stride just at the moment...