Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy probably never had even a fighting chance for his party's nomination. What he did have was a chance to be an agent--alongside catastrophe in Vietnam, or chaos in the United States, or both--of an open Democratic convention in August. A Dien Bien Phu, even in miniature, coupled with race riots on a scale approaching open revolt, could make Johnson so clearly unelectable as to be unnominatable. It was this picture, or one quite like it, which drew Kennedy into the race...
Schoenman, Bertrand Russell's aide and organizer of the tribunal which "tried" the United States for war crimes in Vietnam--can publicly denounce "U.S. imperialism" or "corporate capitalism" with appropriate emotion...
Undeniably, intelligent and sympathetic men in positions of power can make a significant contribution toward creating a better society. Bundy himself, for all his Vietnam guilt, has served this ideal as President of the Ford Foundation, for example in his attempt to foster better television. David Rockefeller, who was harrassed at Dunster House last Sunday, went on to make a remarkably understanding statement Wednesday, calling for honest social action by business...
Otto Eckstein recently predicted that all the money saved from ending the Vietnam war will be channelled right back into the military budget instead of being used for social spending. Now David Rockefeller may put some quiet pressure to bear on the President to prevent this happening but by himself he can achieve nothing...
Bundy's arguments for big government were aimed mainly against Goldwaterite objections. He did not seem aware that there is another sort of objection. The radical fear of highly centralized, far-away, bureaucratic authority is inspired mainly by the sight of the government going wild in Vietnam while there are no means to check it. What happens after all when the driver of the bus, for all his good intentions, seems to be heading for the edge of a cliff...