Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SITTING ROOM. This unremittingly surrealistic attack on war makes Director Richard Lester's first film against the military (How I Won the War) look like child's play...
What brought on the Agnew attack? In the past, the Administration has avowed that his salvos have had only tacit, after-the-fact approval from the White House. This one had its genesis in Richard Nixon's office on the morn ing after his Viet Nam speech, when the President read the news summary edited for him by Speechwriter Pat Buchanan-and concluded that the TV commentators had chopped him up. "There was fairly widespread dismay and unhappiness around here," says one White House aide wryly. The incoming mail showed that some of the President's supporters were...
There is nothing wrong with a President's attacking his detractors; what is unsettling about Nixon's current offensive is the weapons he has chosen and the way he does battle. In his Viet Nam speech he honored the patriotism of his critics-and then impugned it by remarking: "North Viet Nam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." While there is much room for thoughtful criticism of television news, Agnew's blast was partisan and intemperate, and left a certain impression that the issue would never have been raised...
...available broadcast channels and they are therefore public property and must be used in the public interest. Stations are licensed and bound by written rules covering everything from transmission wattage to obscenity. Political candidates are guaranteed equal time with rival candidates, and a citizen may rebut a "personal attack" from anyone appearing on a TV station...
...tell under Blaine's attack for thinking that the university, instead of being "essentially neutral . . . should make itself a political force . . . by counteracting certain forces which they feel as evil-undermining the Armed Forces, for example, by eliminating ROTC or . . . denying the government access to university facilities...