Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie McCarthy. Westmoreland was not urging that dissent be stifled. He was, to be sure, suggesting that some forms of protest might have a demoralizing effect on U.S. troops in Viet Nam and encourage Hanoi to prolong the war. Though that observation may have been politically risky, it was a legitimate expression of concern on the part of the U.S. commander in Viet Nam. Yet, judging from the reaction, he might just as well have called for a suspension of the Bill of Rights...
After a somewhat incongruous interlude-Martha Raye sang two songs from Hello, Dolly!-Westmoreland briefed the guests and alluded once more to antiwar protest back home. He quoted North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap's comment that the home-front controversy reflected widespread lack of support for the war in the U.S., then told the audience: "I defer to your judgment in this regard. It is the central consideration...
...Nothing sound and lasting can be accomplished by a third-party movement," Romney told his Arkansas audience. "It serves only as a protest of the moment, as all of them have in American history. The way to genuine progress in the South-socially and economically as well as politically-is with a strong two-party system." And, he added, "that means strengthening the Republican Party...
...ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned in protest against the government's attempt to rule by decree. He was the first French Cabinet member in five years to quit...
...archfoe of Johnson's school decision. Denouncing "the fiendish demons who committed this act," Lurleen announced a $5,400 reward for information. If the bombing was "in any way related" to the school order, declared Lurleen, "this is not the American way or the Alabama way to protest such decisions...