Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foes of the Viet Nam war bitterly remember the 1964 election in which many voted for Johnson because he promised peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both...
When Wallace finally arrived, he didn't have time to shake hands with all the people who had been waiting, but he thanked them for being there and hoped that they'd come to the rally downtown. With that he went to his car and the small motorcade started off into Trenton...
...Harvard in 1963," Wallace said. "I went out under the steam pipes, y'know. But the students there gave me a real good reception--it was some outside group that made trouble." I started to say something when he continued, "I filled the hall with thundrous applause, dija know that? That's what all the newspapers said, you go and look at them. I 'quickly converted an overwhelmingly hostile audience,' that's what they all said. You go look at them...
...Seals went to the front at the opening gun and was threatened only once over the 3.1-mile course. Tufts standout Bob Ryan moved up to run with Seals briefly during the middle mile, but Seals upped the pace to win going away...
...September he decided to leave camp again after some guards "beat the hell out of me and falsely accused me of trying to start a riot in the camp." This time he went AWOL, he added, "not just for myself, but for everyone else...