Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Withal, the President's prospects are not all that gloomy. Most likely, once the Republicans nominate a candidate and Old Campaigner Johnson can start shelling the foe, the President will again be the favorite. The excesses of the protest movement are beginning to produce substantial dissent against dissent. Pollster Louis Harris reports that 70% of Americans feel that the demonstrators are hurting their own antiwar cause. As for Democratic defections, they are not likely to be as widespread as the breathless publicity surrounding them would indicate. A survey of delegates to the 1964 convention shows that 87% still back...
Eight Ivy League presidents, in a letteer to the White House, renew their protest of the draft. Letter is postmarked from Sweden. It is returned with the notation, "No such city at this address...
Students stage a massive "sleep-in" to protest parietals. Leeaders hail it as "tremendously successful." Radcliffe officials, comparing signouts on night of the demonstration with those on previous evenings say there was "no detectable increase." Oscar Handlin, in Vietnam to entertain the troops, says that a panel of moderate cryptologists has cracked the Vietnamese code. He reveals that Ho Chi Minh has suffered a near-fatal skiing accident and is sinking fast...
...League letter had asked the White House to make it clear that the draft is not to be used as a punishment and that draft boards are not to become extralegal judges of the legality of acts of protest...
...reply to the Ivy presidents, Califano wrote that a statement issued Dec. 9 by Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Hershey had already tried to establish "that lawful protest activities, whether directed to the draft or other national issues, do not subject registrants to the acceleration or other special administrative action by the Selective Service System...