Word: pro-war
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...earned notoriety here for his part in the controversial "counter teach-in" on March 26, 1971. In that incident, Cox called off a pro-war teach-in after 45 minutes when militant demonstrators refused to stop clapping and chanting...
Antiwar activist Tom Hayden told another teach-in that some returning American POWs were forming "a fascist nucleus," providing President Nixon with his first organized pro-war support in a long time...
Since the publication of the Pentagon Papers we have known that early Vietnam fact-finding tours by government officials were used as instruments of pro-war propaganda, and that their distortions of fact were precisely calibrated to soothe restive tempers back home...
...most interesting parts of the film comment on the staginess of the rest. In one sequence, a group of pro-war servicemen (I had begun to wonder just who was left to fight the war) heckle a performance, and, although they are soon removed by others in the audience, for a few minutes there is an actual dialogue--unrehearsed, unlike the virtual monologue of the rest of the show and the rhetoric of Fightin' Jane's familiar phrases. It is a moment when the tone and the punch-line aren't predetermined...
...tried this approach once before when he was President-designate, following the disruption of a pro-war teach-in in Sanders Theatre last Spring. The issue then was free speech, but the results were as inconclusive as those following his efforts to justify morally Harvard's proxy votes in April...