Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naivete about what things will be like once Bobby is in office. The Secretary of State under Robert Kennedy will not be McCarthy, whom we all cheer: it will be McGeorge Bundy, who was hissed so roundly only a week ago for his defense of the administration's Vietnam policy. And the same people who hooted at Bundy will now rally to support the candidate who will make him the second most powerful man in the country (If not the world...
...have no doubt that Robert Kennedy, if elected, would somehow get us out of the Vietnam War. But it does not follow that his election would mean a basic change in our foreign policy. So far as I can tell, Robert Kennedy shares Bundy's views (just as John Kennedy did). These views are that we should use our power abroad wherever and however we can, provided we can get away with it; that we should support our financial interests abroad even by miltary means; and that we should discourage and fight all forms of communism to whatever extent...
...Senator McCarthy is serious about changing our foreign policy, I think he should look beyond the present campaign and beyond Vietnam. Kennedy will be carrying the anti-Johnson message to the country. There is no need for McCarthy to echo him. Instead, McCarthy should hammer away at the issue where Kennedy is as weak as Johnson--our foreign policy in general, as opposed to our Vietnam policy in particular. Though it is inevitable that McCarthy will bow out of the campaign eventually, his staying in at this point could be of crucial importance to our country if (and, I think...
They seized the opportunity at a discussion on Vietnam organized by the Harvard tutors. When the discussion opened, one of the campus leaders challenged our authority to organize the meeting. Other students picked up from there. In a matter of minutes the session turned into a grilling of the tutors...
This development could have been easily foreseen. That it has not been forestalled is simply one more demonstration of the self-defeating nature of the Administration's policy in Vietnam. Seeking to contain revolution in one nation, the U.S. has been led, economically as well as politically, to increase the likelihood of revolution in many nations...