Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Tower (R-Tex.), a conservative's conservative, recited the standard rightist line before an ecstatic houseful of Massachusetts Young Republicans Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...Coexistence is a myth," Tower said of the world-wide struggle with Communism. "The Communists don't believe in it. The very nature of the Marxist doctrine means you've got to have it everywhere to make it work. It won't work anyway, in my opinion...
...Tower declared that the best way to get the support of the uncommitted African nations "is to gain the respect of these people, not to appeal to what we think their moral standards are .... They have one moral standard for us, and one for Russia." As an example of this duality, he pointed to the results of the Belgrade conference...
...African nations, Tower said, "will eventually be committed, not to the nation they think is morally right, but to the nation they think is winning the cold...
...claimed, "We must oppose the admission of Outer Mongolia and Red China to the United Nations. The collapse of the U.N. is imminent if either is admitted." Tower spoke against any type of aid to Communist-bloc countries...