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Withal, the President's prospects are not all that gloomy. Most likely, once the Republicans nominate a candidate and Old Campaigner Johnson can start shelling the foe, the President will again be the favorite. The excesses of the protest movement are beginning to produce substantial dissent against dissent. Pollster Louis Harris reports that 70% of Americans feel that the demonstrators are hurting their own antiwar cause. As for Democratic defections, they are not likely to be as widespread as the breathless publicity surrounding them would indicate. A survey of delegates to the 1964 convention shows that 87% still back...
Caesar & Caligula. Rarely had the voices of dissent been raised so loud, or carried so far, or trained on so many issues. The young formed the sword's point of protest students on a thousand campuses, Negroes in a hundred ghettos, hippies in their psychedelic enclaves. But there was hardly a segment of society that seemed immune to the disaffection. Housewives were alarmed by growing grocery bills, farmers by tumbling prices for their produce, parents by their alienated children, city dwellers by the senseless violence around them...
...ousted by a rejuvenated Republican Party." Notes TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele: "Historical generalizations are dangerous, but one is tempted to suggest that not even Lincoln who had to fight a civil war to preserve the Union faced such internal questioning, such intense and wide-ranging dissent as did Lyndon Johnson...
...Pushkin Square on behalf of three other arrested writers, read at his trial sections from the Soviet constitution guaranteeing "freedom of demonstrations and gatherings on the street." By way of contrast, he pointed out that in the U.S., the Supreme Court had assured the right of Communists to peaceful dissent. "What the prosecutor would like to hear from me, he won't hear," said Bukovsky. "There is no criminal act in my case. I absolutely do not repent." Nonetheless, the Soviet press reported that Bukovsky had pleaded guilty...
...chances for promotion, or the possible publication of his work (all the publishing houses are state-owned). If he cooperates, he may win appointment to the board of a prestigious journal or get a luxury apartment in the Moscow suburbs. Though the regime has made dissent highly unprofitable, many of the younger writers still seem to feel that the price of resistance is indeed well worth paying...