Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam 15 of those fighting men wore black armbands to protest the war while on patrol in a battle zone...
...more intense than-the rest of the nation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a World Affairs Council meeting in Boston that the United States should "announce a firm schedule for withdrawing all its troops from Vietnam as a step towards a political settlement of the war...
...demand for immediate withdrawal by the national Moratorium committee was watered down in several of yesterday's speeches. Bill D. Moyers, former aide to President Johnson and publisher of Newsday, told an overflow crowd of 900 in Trinity Church in New York that the war should be ended "in whatever way the President decides...
Despite continual picketing and sporadic outbreaks of violence in front of the White House. President Nixon spent yesterday ignoring the Vietnam War Moratorium. Nixon made no statement on the war or the protest and devoted most of his day to consideration of Latin American affairs...
...outbreaks of violence occurred when about a dozen black militants, joined by other anti-war demonstrators attempted to crash the northwest gate of the White House. The protesters were quickly routed as U.S. park police arrested five. A fist-swinging melee developed as anti-Moratorium picketers attacked the protest-in Congress the halls were relatively quiet as many of the members spent the day speaking to Moratorium crowds across the nation. Anti-war Representatives were blocked in their efforts to keep the House in session all Tuesday night...