Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST immoral thing about the war in Vietnam, Michener went on to explain, was "of course" that it was waged on behalf of a nation that could not profit from our help and against a nation with whom we had no substantive quarrel. The fact that it killed several million innocent people counted for just about nil, apparently. My Lai does merit special attention, in Michener's view, however, because it "resulted in a kind of moral schizophrenia in the American people...
...once and for all to the Nixonian onslaught of fascism. At the same time, American withdrawal from Indochina will end once and for all the wave of liberal and radical protest that made Nixon, like Diem before him, believe repressive methods necessary. So much for the profit Democrats hope to make off of this national 'tragedy.' When the Republican Party in the aftermath of the Civil War profited to consolidate the rule of the Northern middle-class, when the Democrats profited from the Depression to enact the welfare legislation demanded by the sinking middle-class, major realignments were brought about...
...official line is we don't want to profit from a national tragedy," Gary Hart of the McGovern campaign remarked recently of the Watergate hearings. "You can translate that as, 'let the Republicans stew in their own juice...
...translate that as we don't want to profit from a national "tragedy." Few Democrats have been making inflammatory speeches, or seriously attacking these wonderful folks who brought us the plumbers' unit, or coming out and saying that President Nixon is personally responsible for the activities of his administrators and election committee. McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie--the would-be Democratic presidents of the party--have little or nothing to say about Watergate. Kennedy, however, told a Fourth of July crowd that although he differs with George Wallace "on some issues," they have in common the fact that neither of them keeps...
...impeachment proceedings against Nixon, if they want to. It is equally clear that they do not want to. Although, according to the Washington Post, most of them think Nixon approved the cover up, they are reluctant to further divide our bleeding nation, and so forth. They are reluctant to profit from a national tragedy (i.e. 'tragedy' liberally defined). This is unusual. The Republican Party showed no such scruples during reconstruction; the Democrats were perfectly willing to profit from the Depression. Self-interest and idealism both prompt political parties to profit from whatever comes along. Why are the Watergate hearings different...