Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disengagement from Vietnam is a prerequisite for any real attack on the conditions and attitudes that keep black Americans economically and socially submerged. Here, Kennedy has taken a strong stand. The war, as he sees it, is brutal, wasteful folly. There is no reason to believe that he would not push for a speedy settlement in Southeast Asia. He realizes the costs of Vietnam and has admitted the shortsightedness of the policy his borther pursued before November, 1963. Kennedy knows the lessons of foreign adventurism and military overextension. And his past experience with the Pentagon and State Department means that...
...said that Kennedy's candidacy will split the anti-Vietnam vote and ensure President Johnson's re-nomination in August, but did not openly discourage the former Attorney General from entering the contest...
...well suited to the task of battling an incumbent President for his party's nomination. The traditional weapons of inter-party struggle are necessarily in the hands of President Johnson; to fight him therefore means to go outside the caucuses and start from the bottom up, to take Vietnam to voters who aren't now disaffected but could be. Eugene McCarthy has shown a willingness to adopt this approach, and a considerable flair...
...Kennedy appeal is not to be underrated, but its Eastern glamor and youthfulness are ultimately obstacles as well as assets, particularly in arguing a politically fragile issue like Vietnam, fraught as it is with sinister links to beards, long hair, drugs and agents of foreign powers. In short, Kennedy's floor is high but his ceiling...
About 3500 students and 100 faculty members stayed away from classes at Columbia University in a protest against the draft and the war in Vietnam...