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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam by quoting something John F. Kennedy said in 1963, two months before his assassination: "We want the war to be won, the Communists to be contained and the Americans to go home." Often he cites Dwight Eisenhower's original pledge of U.S. aid-though this tactic has opened him to some serious criticism. Illinois' G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Charles Percy, for example, has complained that Johnson makes it sound as if "bombing within a few miles of China is really no different from honoring an offer of economic assistance made a dozen years earlier by President Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: No Cure in Consensus | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...freshman called upon an unusual tactic to turn the annual deficit-producing Jubilee into a money-maker. "We doubled the budget," Paul J. Zofnass '69, chairman of the Jubilee committee, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Weekend Nets $400 Profit With Big Budget | 5/31/1966 | See Source »

...directed bank, now only a year-and-a-half old, Freedom National Bank is a symbol of what Negros can do to help themselves, according to the President of the bank, Willam F. Hudgins. Hudgins feels that going to the people by taking to the pulpit is a legitimate tactic in his crusade to bring full banking service to a community where discrimination in the money market is one of its many economic handicaps. He hopes not only to gain new accounts for the bank, but to modernize the churchgoers' primitive financial habits. Many have never seen the inside...

Author: By Suzanne M. Snell, | Title: Harlem's Freedom National Bank--Exploiters or Soul Brothers? | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Although he abandoned the Black Muslims' demand for separation of the races, he could see that black nationalism was a valuable tactic, and was groping for a non-Muslim definition of the term in the last months of his life. Black nationalism "had the ability to instill within black men the racal dignity, the incentive and the confdence that the black race needs today to get up off its knees... and stand up on its feet...

Author: By Robert J. Domrese, | Title: The Autobiography of Malcolm X: A Struggle With the Wrong Image | 5/24/1966 | See Source »

...direction today should realize that a university which bows to this kind of force will bow to other kinds of coercion tomorrow." Economics Professor Gerhard Meyer, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, told the squatters: "This is coercion, morally wrong and self-defeating." Faced with the Beadle tactic of avoiding battle but refusing to surrender, the students, with exams just around the bend, gave in and moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: The President Who Wouldn't Get Mad | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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