Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garden last Friday was pretty tame stuff. Naturally there were plenty of good reasons for all the elbow room and the lack of ecstasy over the predictable sloganeering. Gene has been swamped at Chicago, Nixon, the sabre-rattling cop, was heading into the homestretch with a big lead, the Vietnam war seemed ready to take an astonishingly civilized turn, and the Garden in the fall isn't Fenway in midsummer...
...failure to discuss his reasoning spotlighted not only his personal dilemma, but the increasingly touchy position his backers find themselves in as election day approaches. Simply, the next great Senate foreign policy stand will probably have little to do with the conduct of the Vietnam war. It will likely center around America's arms control policy, a policy with grave budgetary implications for federal action to redeem the cities...
ONLY 24 hours before McCarthy's speech, Richard Nixon made his feelings plain: if he had to spend $50 billion, or the equivalent of two years in Vietnam, to attain "clear-cut superiority" over the Russians, by golly, we would do it. Hubert Humphrey, to his credit, believes in strategic parity and in quick, comprehensive, bilateral negotiations to head off another insane arms spiral...
...somehow make peace in Vietnam and survive the present era," he wrote, "we may discover that America's development toward further openness has been only temporarily halted...
...they want to be really democratic why don't they let the people of Vietnam vote?" Kazin suggested. "ROTC is affecting them just as much as it is Harvard students...