Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefly quiescent after the shocks and divisions of 1968. But it is also somber and unsure; the vexing dilemmas of Viet Nam, racial tension and urban disintegration all remain unresolved. There is a vacuum in the nation's leadership, and once Richard Milhous Nixon takes the oath of office next week to become the 37th President of the U.S., there will not be much time before he must act to fill it. Still, like most of his predecessors, he starts his term with the good will and high expectations of his fellow citizens. A Louis Harris poll released last...
Thus the man who sought to govern by consensus could not even hold together his own party. The politician who attempted-with much success-to complete the unfinished business of the New Deal ended by presiding over a nation beset by class and racial tension. The President elected in 1964 by the largest popular majority in history had to admit that the interests of peace and national unity would best be served by his renunciation of power...
...President has a far more effective podium than any band of writers and academics, but Johnson rarely used it to good effect when the Viet Nam debate became virulent, or when the nation became confused and distressed over racial unrest. He might have survived the assault if he had earlier amassed a reservoir of popular confidence. This he had never really done. He tried to come across as the protean President, large in heart and body and energy, but that aura was not consonant with all-too-accurate stories of his pettiness, his bullying of aides, his unnecessary deceptions...
...people of the 18th District of New York. Don't further divide this country." For 22 months, Powell's largely black constituency-actually, 431,330 people in the 1960 census-had been without representation in the House, and refusal to seat him could have heightened racial tensions...
...Nixon and his executive staff can move ahead with legislation and the new Secretary of Defense prod and cajole his generals and admirals, the new Administration will go far toward its aim. A volunteer army might help ease racial tensions, perhaps by ending the imbalance that has blacks serving in the front lines at almost three times their proportion in the population and certainly by removing the arbitrariness of the draft that puts them there. The move would also eliminate the need to force men to go to war against their consciences, and end such other distortions as paying soldiers...