Word: prowar
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Another thing that bothered Wayne was the war. He was for it. When ordinary men feel that way, they sound off at home or in saloons. Wayne did it in a picture. The Green Berets was probably the only prowar movie made in the '60s. It was so pro that New York Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal accused Wayne and the Army of conspiracy. The movie, claimed Rosenthal, "became a useful and skilled device employed by the Pentagon to present a view of the war which was disputed in 1967 and is largely repudiated today...
Perhaps. Right now, thousands of party officials find themselves torn in two and sometimes even trisected as the contenders seek pledges of support. The odds have traditionally favored the incumbent President, who commands potent leverage. A selective White House survey of Democratic House members, excluding the prowar, pro-L.B.J. Southerners, showed fhat 160 preferred Johnson, eleven Kennedy, three McCarthy. In a New York Times count, Democratic state leaders predicted that 65% of the delegate votes at the convention would go to L.B.J. (for a total of 1,725 convention votes, more than 400 above the 1,312 needed...
...need for potential candidates to make clear their positions on major issues-most especially on Viet Nam. This jab hit Rockefeller in the vitals. There are few subjects on which he has been more silent recently, and his reticence has prompted rumors that he has modified his prowar stand of two years...
...speech sponsored by the Committee for Effective Action, Hoffmann offered advice to concerned students on how to counter the prowar arguments they will be faced with during the Christmas vacation as they work for peace...
...member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told a meeting in Winthrop House that America should "stop pulling chestnuts out of the fire for other nations and mind our own business." A mass meeting in April drew 700 people, and the newly-formed Undergraduate Neutrality Council demanded that all prowar memorials at Harvard be removed, including the Sargent murals Widner...