Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House and his longstanding aversion to Johnson, Kennedy was increasingly despairing of the Administration's Viet Nam policy. And he feared that a "catastrophic ending," as he put it last week, was to come. After the Communists' Tet offensive, he believed a major U.S. military step-up to be inevitable. "How can I stay out," he asked a friend, "knowing what they are planning to do? I've got to do something." On domestic issues Kennedy grew ever more convinced that Johnson was failing the country...
...radically new programs which blacks control. There is a 'procrastination component' built into the party process which simply means we must take political initiative. The crucial task for Black Power politics lies in politicizing a people who have suffered political disenfranchisement for centuries. Black Power politics is the first step in a process to change the social and political regard of the black community towards political hegemony...
Until whites take their heels off the backs of black Americans, any University action will seem to have only remote relevance to the country's racial agony, but Harvard can at least take the modest step forward of revising its outdated hiring practices...
...overall concept of the Charles Warren Center is a valuable and farsighted step in advancing the study of American history. As Fleming notes, "There's nothing really like this anywhere else...
...some other students that had supported McCarthy changed their views. Charles Reynolds 4G collected over 100 student signatures on a telegram to McCarthy urging him to step down. The 100--including several McCarthy campaign workers--also signed a companion telegram encouraging Kennedy to run, should McCarthy leave the race. Both telegrams expressed admiration for McCarthy's political stands...