Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate departure of U.S. troops." In messages to their cadres, the Viet Cong now say that they may agree to the setting up of a coalition government in the South while U.S. troops remain on the scene. This might serve as a basis for negotiations, but from the U.S. viewpoint, there is a major sticking point. The Communists have never retreated from that part of their maximum demand which insists that the affairs of South Viet Nam must be directed "in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front"-meaning control by the Viet Cong...
...quit? There was no gracious or easy way, either for McNamara or the President, to arrange the order of his going. A firm request from the Chief to stay on, probably half expected by McNamara, would have settled things; but it never came. From the President's viewpoint, McNamara's reasons for wanting to leave were sound. Tactical political considerations dictated that the closer to Election Day the resignation occurred, the more serious its impact...
This is probably the weakest link of The Freedom Budget campaign, at least from a tactical viewpoint. Doves will argue that while poverty is terrible, murdering thousands of innocent people is worse. President Johnson will simply say there isn't enough bread to go around. The Freedom Budget may well be gored on the fence...
...Students, who possess their own special viewpoint about the Law School, have something valuable to contribute to the picking of a Dean and should be consulted," William C. Samuels, another third-year student, said yesterday...
...reasonable comparison between the power of a group of students to restrict a man's movements for several hours and the power of a Senate Committee to ruin a man for life. There was, for a time during the 50's, a real danger that the expression of certain viewpoints in this country would be suppressed. There has never been the slightest danger, in this or any other controversy, that the expression of the U.S. Administration's viewpoint would be suppressed. This would remain true whether or not Harvard University permitted supporters of the war machine to recruit on campus...