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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large segment of M-day support comes from those who worked for Mc Carthy or Robert Kennedy last year be cause of their opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...spite of Nixon's disdainful public view of M-day, there were clear signs of dismay and confusion around the White House and among those who believe that any President deserves support in pursuing his foreign policy. Dean Acheson, no stranger to criticism of his own foreign policy when he was Harry Truman's Secretary of State, weighed in with the observation that open season on Presidents should be limited to "the quadrennial donnybrook," an Achesonism for presidential elections. Henry Kissinger, the President's chief foreign affairs strategist, told a group of visiting Quakers that the Moratorium is "counterproductive" because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Nixon was getting flak closer to home as well, from 17 Senators and 47 Representatives who announced support for M-day. A raft of critical resolutions surfaced on Capitol Hill, showing defiance of Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's plea for a moratorium of his own?a 60-day pause in attacks on Nixon's war policies. Two freshman Democratic Senators, Iowa's Harold Hughes and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton, demanded extensive reform of the Saigon government ?within 60 days. Idaho's Frank Church and Oregon's Mark Hatfield asked for "a more rapid withdrawal of American troops"; George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...main support for the Moratorium came from the Northeast and the West Coast, where antiwar feeling has always been strongest. But plenty of action was in train in the South and Midwest as well, in small towns and at obscure colleges that have never seen a peace demonstration before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...galleries. One reason for this heartland attitude may be last week's disruptive outbursts in Chicago by the extremist "Weatherman" faction of the S.D.S. (see story, page 24), which led to head-busting that in the Midwest eclipsed publicity for the nonviolent M-day protest. Still, even here, support for the Moratorium seemed to be shaping up with more force than there had been any reason to expect. Gordon Sherman, head of Midas-International (auto parts and mobile homes) and chairman of Chicago's chapter of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, encouraged employees to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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