Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, Goodell had won me over; I was one of his more enthusiastic supporters among the interns. He had shown himself as a man of high principle, and he had spoken out against the war...
...alienate almost all of the Republican Party machinery in New York State during one year as Senator. He supported Lindsay for re-election before the Mayor lost the primary, and has campaigned for him since then. Before he got to the point of criticizing the President on the war, he launched an attack on Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. He voted against the ABM. (He once approved a statement his staff wrote condemning the ABM by phone from the President's Air Force...
They, and the 29 interns Goodell had in his office over the summer, have shown the Senator how the younger generation in this country is thinking and feeling. Before he decided to speak out on the war, his staff members and interns argued long hours with him trying to convince him to say something. Many of the staff members have said that it was the efforts of the interns that finally convinced Goodell he had to do something. And, as he often does, he committed himself entirely to a cause he believes in, introducing the Vietnam Disengagement Bill...
...even though his bill to end the war is innovative and admirable, it will lose. And were it to pass both Houses of Congress, we all know Nixon would veto it. The bill is meant to be a forceful gesture, rather than a concrete action-but that fact is the basic problem with the whole system Goodell is working in. The best a man with good intentions can do is make a forceful gesture. If he is lucky, an important bill he has introduced may pass. But then the President must approve it, and a presidential appointed must enforce...
...early opponents of the Vietnam war at a time when such opposition was hardly popular, I view with a certain amusement the current scramble over the resolution on the Vietnam war by those who several years ago were mute in face of this example of the vulgarities of American imperial power. It is. I suspect, a welcome event that opposition to the monstrous Vietnam war has become popular and respectable among the Harvard faculty. But it is unfortunate indeed that late-comers to the anti-war movement display such poor understanding of the political limits of a university faculty...