Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hampton based his campaign on the Conservative Party platform, which he helped to draft in 1966. He supported an unconditional victory in Vietnam, drastic cuts in state and federal aid to education, a curtailment of federal spending and "systematic reduction in the size and cost of government...
...contrast, Lowenstein ran his campaign with storefronts in all Fifth District towns, manned mostly by Jewish mothers and high school students. The workers, canvassing their neighborhoods, opposed Hampton on every point. They called for the unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and the formation of a representative coalition government in South Vietnam. Lowenstein himself denounced the war as "the greatest tragedy of American foreign policy in many decades...
Miss Gove testified that she and the two men were interviewing servicemen and offering them copies of a newspaper called "G.I. in Vietnam" in the bus terminal. "We asked them about Army life, what they were being trained for at Fort Devens, and their views on the war in Vietnam. If they weren't interested in talking to us, we left them alone; if they were interested, we offered them copies of the paper," Miss Gove said...
...MOST STRIKING thing about this election is not what the voters chose, but the poverty of their alternatives. They were not offered any candidate who opposed the war in Vietnam, or even one willing to discuss it openly and without subterfuge. The candidates battled one another over the issues of race, the cities and the revolt of the students, but in a way so removed from the realities of thses issues that the people who should have had the most interest in this election--the young, the poor, and the blakcs--remained uninvolved...
CLEAVER points out that the black man's problems in America are not independent of those of other oppressed pepole. It is no accident that Malcolm X went to Africa, that Martin Luther King was against the Vietnam War, or that the Vietcong have warned black soldiers of impending terrorist activities in Saigon. "The blacks in Watts and all over America could now see the Vietcong's point: both were on the receiving end of what the armed forces were dishing...