Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Practically every night they had something going. There was just no time to riot." Leon Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able black Representative John Conyers Jr., calls these bootstrap efforts "sort of a Reconstruction revisited." He adds: "After the violence of 1967, it became apparent to blacks that war and confrontation in the streets was not the answer. It's a no-win deal...
...indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race war on the white man's doorstep led bridge-playing suburban housewives to sign up for marksmanship practice. It was a vision amply fueled by the unbridled rhetoric of black militants, but it has not come to pass...
...that provided the major topic as the Governors convened for their 61st annual conference at the Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. In particular, they discussed the money to be had in the nebulous kitty known as the "peace dividend," meaning savings from an end to the Viet Nam war that might be diverted to domestic ends...
...programs such as welfare and aid to education. But Presidential Counsel Arthur Burns was an early guest of the Governors, and he had more hopeful news. There had been a "little misunderstanding" of Moynihan's remarks, he allowed, and in fact "there would be $8 billion if the war ended today" for use in new or expanded domestic areas...
Such cheer as Burns inspired was short-lived. In flew President Nixon to inform the Governors that "dreams of unlimited billions being released once the war in Viet Nam ends are just that-dreams. True, there will be additional money, but the claims on it already are enormous. There should be no illusion that what some call the 'peace and growth dividend' will automatically solve our national problems." Added the President: "In order to find the money for new programs, we will have to trim it out of old ones...