Word: dissent
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...BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT banners that were to plague him throughout the area-including a huge one draped on a mountainside outside Wellington-began appearing. But the enthusiasm of the lunch-hour crowds that stood six and eight deep along Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay outweighed the undercurrent of dissent. If the reception delighted Johnson, his reaction astounded New Zealanders, who are accustomed to the aseptic pomp of visits by British royalty. L.B.J. charged out of the bubble-top at practically every corner to shake hands, raised his hands over his head in a gesture made famous by Dwight Eisenhower...
...Vorster becomes worried, he may discourage Smith from relying heavily on continued South African support. That in turn would probably force Smith to the negotiating table. And the British meanwhile continue trying to make negotiations as palatable as possible, for at least as long as Wilson can control African dissent...
Loud, stagey, peripherally vulgar, Goldfarb celebrates himself and his environment in language so accurate, so lusty, so unmistakably public and engaging that no dissent from his accomplishment is possible...
...would be to seek a settlement rather than invite continued insupportable losses. Yet, ridiculous as it seems, there are indications that the North Vietnamese regime is convinced that Lyndon Johnson's war policy will be overwhelmingly repudiated by American voters on Nov. 8. Hanoi, misled by the noisy dissent of antiwar groups in the U.S., may well be in for a rude shock...
This is not to say that either man could have won had he only possessed more money and better organization. But for lack of these essentials neither campaign brought out anything approaching the full force of voter dissent on Vietnam--to say nothing of the other issues Adams and Frost tried to raise. The failure of both men reflects not the inevitable fate of "one-issue candidates" but the current political bankruptcy of the United States...