Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March leaves the Moratorium leaders straddling the fence for next month. They will concentrate their November effort on individual community campaigns to build a grass roots power base, hoping mild endorsement for the Washington march will not lose the radical student forces who form the nucleus of any anti-war rally...
...success of Brown's strategy is now based on the reasonably solid premise that the Vietnam War will not end in the next month. By-passing the emotional Washington march. Moratorium leaders think they can gradually build a movement over the winter that will bring wavering student radicals back into the political system while driving adult voters out to its left...
...Vietnam speech still might shatter that ultimate dream. If, as the press has speculated, the President proposes a unilateral cease-fire or the withdrawal of 250,000 combat troops by the end of 1970, probably no amount of local canvassing can convince Middle America that the end of the war isn't near. The student left in Sam Brown's coalition will go to Washington November 15 no matter what Mr. Nixon says, and his right will vanish back into its grassy under- brush...
...timing of the Nixon speech repeats a familiar pattern: Lyndon Johnson killed off the nascent McCarthy movement with his surprise step toward ending the war- the bombing halt- way back in March, 1968. Right now Sam Brown looks every bit the winner he was right after the New Hampshire primary, but once again he has every chance of ending up a loser...
Your article reporting that Allard Lowenstein "kicked off the Anti-war Vietnam Moratorium" rankles just a bit. At least, it rankles those who are concerned with the historical record. People in this community and elsewhere should know that all through the summer, he agitated among students and peace-minded Democrats against the October 15 Moratorium. Sam Brown and David Hawk, the organizers of this activity, found Lowenstein to be a source of constant obstruction. He has come around now that he has no other choice, lest he be outflanked by Senator Harris. The press created the myth that Lowenstein drove...