Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that "I would go further." A few unappeasable doves, of course, zeroed in on Nixon's failure to "limit the level of violence" in Viet Nam by unilaterally withdrawing troops. Said Senator George McGovern: "We continue to speak the rhetoric of peace while executing the actions of war...
Nowhere was Nixon more candid than in fixing responsibility. "In my campaign for the presidency, I pledged to end this war in a way that would increase our chances to win a true and lasting peace in Viet Nam, in the Pacific and in the world," he said. "I am determined to keep that pledge. If I fail to do so, I expect the American people to hold me accountable for that failure...
...date, and U.S. willingness to allow the neutralization of South Viet Nam. Neutralization, which many Saigon politicians fear will lead to takeover by the North, remains officially anathema in South Viet Nam; at least one politician is still in jail for having advocated it as a solution of the war. However, Thieu evidently felt that Nixon's proviso-"if that is what the South Vietnamese people freely choose"-was both fair and safe. At week's end, while receiving Rogers, he requested a meeting with Nixon, perhaps to ask for further assurances. Mostly, however, Nixon's boast...
While groping for peace, Richard Nixon still faces the grim business of managing war. Last week he sought to humanize the machinery by which his soldiers are conscripted. "The present draft arrangements," he said in a message to Congress, "make it extremely difficult for most young people to plan intelligently as they make some of the most important decisions of their lives, decisions concerning education, career, marriage and family...
...year" would be constructed annually. It could begin with any date, say Oct. 17, followed by other ad hoc choices: Jan. 4, July 20, April 27 and so on. The 365 dates would probably be drawn from a fishbowl, as were the numbers of the first draftees in World War II. Young men born on the first date in the scrambled year would be the first to face induction...