Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy should have been more prudent. Oregon is dovish, and McCarthy, as the first antiwar candidate in the race, was much better known there than in Indiana and Nebraska, where recognition was a major problem. Oregon is also an overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd...
...deadlock was plainly beginning to irritate Lyndon Johnson, who is coming under increasing pressure to resume all-out bombing. After Deputy U.S. Negotiator Cyrus R. Vance flew back from Paris to brief the President on the talks, Johnson jabbed at Hanoi. "It is time," he told an impromptu White House news conference, "to move from fantasy and propaganda to the realistic and constructive work of bringing peace to Southeast Asia." So far, he declared, the North's only response to his bombing curtailment has been to pour in men and supplies "at an unpreccdented rate." Nonetheless, two clays later...
...White Ghettos. Another group marched on the Supreme Court, whose decisions have done much in the past decade and a half to secure the rights of all minorities. Their aim: to protest a decision upholding the convictions of 24 Indians for violating fishing regulations in the state of Washington. Led by George Crow Flies High, a Hidatsa chief from North Dakota in buckskin jacket and pants and full-feathered headdress, the group ignored a statute banning demonstrations outside the court. Indian women let out war whoops. Others cried: "Earl Warren, you better come out now." Demonstrators defiantly sprawled over imposing...
...campaign was also plagued by internal dissent. Resurrection City, heavily black, sprouted some white ghettos, including one populated by Appalachian mountain folk and another by hippies who dubbed their enclave "Diggerville" and festooned their shelters with gaily colored cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were...
Drawing strength from a majority of like-minded congressional conservatives in both parties, Mills coolly turned up a full house. He defeated handily, by 259 to 137 votes, an attempt to make him abide by the cut of only $4 billion that would be acceptable to the White House. Next day, in slow, stressed cadences, the President capitulated on Mills's terms even though the cut will slash into the bone and sinew of Great Society programs he deems essential to assuage America's social ills. Without increased taxes, Johnson warned, "the gates of economic chaos could open...