Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shock Ploy. This is the most extreme version of the theory that Humphrey must above all dissociate himself from Lyndon Johnson. He resigns forthwith as Vice President (this has been seriously considered by Columnists Clayton Fritchey, Ted Lewis and others) and proves that he has at last become his own man. He calls for an immediate, unconditional bombing halt in Viet Nam and phased withdrawal of U.S. troops. He possibly balances this dovish move in Asia by getting tough with the Russians in Europe, issuing stiff warnings to Moscow against any more dangerous moves on the Continent. He further breaks...
...Candor Caper. Conceding that Plan No. 1 is too extreme, Humphrey resuscitators consider this a more reasonable and plausible version of the shock ploy. After hymning the Democratic record under such great Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey announces that it is indeed time for a change-a Democratic change. He analyzes the nation's discontents, proposes root-and-branch cures, and submits a list of priorities based on de-escalating a war that, however noble its original aims, has become irrelevant to the more pressing needs of a divided America. The line...
...President's 1966 State of the Union Message. Some Senators were also bothered by the fact that Chief Justice Earl Warren had not really resigned, but has only opted to retire if and when a successor was agreed upon. Republicans, scenting victory in November, thought that was a ploy to prevent Nixon from naming his own Chief Justice...
Propaganda Ploy. While the North Vietnamese have long since abandoned round-the-clock shelling of the isolated U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien just south of the DMZ, northernmost I Corps remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into...
...Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved in, and the Soviets immediately came back at him with their other demand-that Rumania allow Warsaw Pact maneuvers to take place on its soil. It was, of course, the same ploy that the Soviets used on Dubcek prior to the invasion. Ceauşescu refused...