Word: consensus
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PRIOR TO the last week of this campaign, no President could have asked for a greater consensus on the issue of Vietnam than that which Lyndon Johnson received from the Presidential candidates. Vietnam, the most important issue of the campaign, was in fact no issue...
...meant lives spent on both sides fighting a futile war we never should have entered. It has meant the alienation of youth and a general swing to the right in domestic politics. It has meant money which could have been going to out cities, the split of the liberal consensus, and the rupture of Democratic party...
...simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded past crowded cafe tables. The consensus was that the man with the sign was out of his head...
...about a cure and how long the task will take. At a Hot Springs, Va., meeting of the Business Council, a group of corporate executives who generally support the Johnson Administration's policies, there were plenty of questions about what the next president might have to do. The consensus of 20 council economists was that an economic slowdown next year, however temporary, would tempt a new Administration to ease off on the brakes prematurely. The result might be more inflation, followed by a "major recession" in late 1970 and early...
...single campaign speech includes some spurious statistics intended to show that Alabama's blacks were all for Lurleen. The insistence that no one can really be against him is at first rather touching, but it has an ominous quality to it: it is the small extension of Johnsonian consensus, the point where social unity becomes fascism...