Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President told of his visit earlier in the day to Andrew Jackson's historic Hermitage. "In our time, as in his, history conspires to test the American will," he said. "Two years ago, we were forced to choose between major commitments in defense of South Viet Nam or retreat in the face of subversion and external assault. Andrew Jackson would never have been surprised with the choice we made...
Though the action did little to raise the onetime actor's popularity rating, he at least knew how to recognize an exit cue. When his tax proposals were made public, Reagan managed a strategic retreat to the East, where he met with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, breakfasted in Washington with Republican members of the House, and swapped quips with Bobby Kennedy at the Gridiron Club's annual hijinks...
Whether China's new sobriety represented a temporary pause or a permanent retreat remained to be seen. Moscow, which probably knows as well as anyone what goes on within Peking's inner councils, issued its own official appraisal. The Kremlin conclusion: Mao was merely changing his tactics, not his goals, a change necessitated by the "decisive resistance" of the Chinese people "to the Red Guard outrages...
...Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged the U.S. to retreat into coastal enclaves, now urged an unconditional halt to the bombing. Historian Henry Steele Commager accused the U.S. of "a double standard" in demanding an end to North Viet Nam's infiltration while it maintains its own "infiltration" of men and arms into the South...
...that reversal: Miller must be freed or retried. Said Justice Stewart: "More than 30 years ago, this court held that the 14th Amendment cannot tolerate a state criminal conviction obtained by the knowing use of false evidence. There has been no deviation from that principle. There can be no retreat...