Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Westmoreland's slam at Vietnam critics echoed a recent attempt by President Johnson to insure a minimum of strafing from his opponents, as his reelection campaign gets underway. "Men may debate and men may dissent, men may disagree, and God forbid that a time should come when men of this land may not," the President said, but he added that now was the time when debate should quiet and "men must stand...
...larger questions of the war may uncover. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a sore wound for the Administration last week with its hearing on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which is the closest thing the President has to a legal excuse for waging war on North Vietnam. It is hard to prove that the United States ship provoked the attacks that led to he step-up of our involvement, but it is clear that the Administration was dishonestly selective in what it chose to reveal to Congress...
Behind the delay lies the widening shadow cast by the Vietnam war. Because of the war's expense, Bryant says, the President probably "doesn't want to introduce new programs that have to be financed in novo." It is not clear just what the Commission's report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...
...Harvard Young Republican Club has passed a resolution calling for "an immediate halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and unconditional negotiations with all concerned parties, including...
This is the worst of times, though, to try to get the public to pay attention to the nation's library needs, and there seems little alternative but to wait. For the present the "life of its own" Bryant sees for the ACLS report must be counted among the Vietnam war casualties...