Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington press conference he said he would continue to campaign by going both to the voters and to the delegates and raising questions about "our military policy in Vietnam and also a broader examination of the militaristic thrust of American policy...
...occasional slips, to dwell on his so-called "ruthlessness," than to explain--or even just to analyze--the thrust of his campaign. In their zeal to discuss Joe McCarthy and wiretapping, editorial writers somehow forgot that Bob Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs of labor racketeering was the same man who assaulted apartheid on it's home territory. They seemed to forget that the drive...
There is no way of telling, of course, whether Bob Kennedy would have made the White House on this run. A summer of riots, the impasse in Paris, and rising Vietnam casualty rates could well have eroded Vice President Humphrey's delegate lead. And much of Senator McCarthy's liberal, affluent support might have resigned itself to the former Attorney General. Yet the importance of the Kennedy campaign--or, indeed, the post-1963 Kennedy career--doesn't lie merely in what it might have been. Grief-stricken Kennedy backers should take some solace in a contribution Kennedy has made...
Whitney M. Young Jr. has been executive director of the National Urban League since 1961. He is the author of To Be Equal (1964) and other studies of Negro problems. Considered a moderate on civil rights questions, Young has been warning lately that the return of a mass of Vietnam veterans who are used to violence could cause trouble in America unless something is done fast domestically...
...became June, and there you were with the war that you told everyone you hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...