Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the committee's members, such as Huntington, who heads the task force that advises Humphrey on underdeveloped nations and particularly Vietnam, are veteran supporters of the Vice President. Their activities "will greatly expand when the fall semester begins", a committee press report stated...
...seems that "Whitie" is a chief symbol of success while little Black children are being robbed of a strong Black male figure to look up to. Destroying the Black man's image in his home and community has not been enough for "Whitie." Now his White Vietnam war is jeopardizing the Black man's total existence. "Mass Black Genocide" is what it's become known as in the Black communities. A lot of credit and respect is due the Black man. He in spite of the White pressures, White chains of oppression and White discrimination has managed to maintain...
...Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...
...vague diplomatic or legislative program--although the candidates try hard to differentiate themselves here--but what a Dedham real estate man terms "strong, trustworthy leadership." Voters, as a whole, seem less outraged by Mayor Lindsay's anguished call that "we've gotten off the track" than by drift in Vietnam, dabbling with inflation, and shilly-shallying on riots. Lyndon Johnson's oft-affirmed practice of seeking a high middle ground has gotten him--and men like Nixon and Humphrey--in more hot water than the grinding poverty and casualty rates which produce the most extreme forms of protest...
Calling for militant opposition to racial oppression in America, Seal said, "If we can get people a million strong to stop Lyndon Johnson from running for President, and a million strong against the war in Vietnam, then, God damn it, we can get a million strong to march against the war being waged against black people...