Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What did support for the Moratorium mean? Did it mean backing unconditional withdrawal from Viet Nam? Many of the Moratorium's supporters favored it, but many more did not. Almost certainly the majority of the nation as a whole was not prepared for that step at present...
...opposed, I had had three doors slammed in my face. I had been told by a half a dozen people that they were already planning to go to the Cambridge Commons Rally, I had listened to another five people voice a sympathy with the rally but refuse to actively support it, and I found out that most people in Cambridge do not stay at home in the morning. I also felt a little useless, but I had a sense of satisfaction with myself...
...those who support President Nixon. People opposed to the Moratorium displayed flags. drove with their car headlights on, and listened to speeches. Sen. Barry Voldwater (R-Ariz.) told one crowd in Anaheim, California, that "Moratorium participants are playing into the hands of those whose business it is to kill American fighting...
...called for "an irrevocable decision to remove our ground combat forces as soon as possible, but no later than one year from now, and our air and support troops promptly thereafter, but no later than...
Just for the record, therefore, I have to point out that the Phoenix does not support Nelson, financially, editorially or politically. The only money he has received from us is the price of a few admission tickets to his rock benefit (his campaign managers somehow never managed to generate the press passes they promised us). We have, ?n addition, run a somewhat sympathetic profile of him by Mark Lieberman, a senior editor of the Phoenix. But this no more constitutes an endorsement of Nelson than Lieberman's profile this week constitutes an endorsement of Al Vellucci. The Phoenix does...