Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently unclear about his audience's stand on the war in Vietnam, Rudd began a historical treatment of the civil rights movement. Again interrupted by someone in the audience, he switched to a discussion of the Columbia protest. About this time the film about Columbia arrived from New York, and, after the failure of the sound system and some confusion with the lights, it was shown...
...irresponsibility as well as intransigeance that has marked these last months. Our leaders, present and potential, are dealing with Vietnam on a purely partisan level, and the result has been a tragi-comedy of accusation and distortion...
Five days ago Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey told a group of Toledo housewives that if he were elected to the White House "it would be my policy to move toward a systematic reduction in American forces" in Vietnam. "I think we can do it. I am determined we can do it," he told them...
...troubled term by producing a peace settlement, now seems obsessed with the idea that historians may term him the President who "made concessions to the Communists." And so, unmindful of any developments in Paris, he seems determined to order the continuation of the bombing of North Vietnam up until the morning of January...
...into the world not cheerful, but determined. Our task is clear--it is for us to build a movement to implement the ideals that you have taught us. Our first objective, obviously, must be to bring our troops home from Vietnam immediately. This is, of course, an issue of crucial importance to all Americans, and in fact to all the world, but the class of 1968 faces it with painful immediacy. I believe it is fair to say that our class, almost to a man, opposed in some way our government's policies in Asia. Many of us go further...