Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Repression of Dissent...
Mindful of the damage he had caused by calling some protesters bums, Nixon declared: "I am proud to say that the great majority of America's young people do not approve of violence. The great majority do approve, as I do, of dissent." Then he added a passage that might cause rueful smiles among veterans of antiwar confrontations: "It isn't the beat generation. It isn't the beat-up generation." Rather, he declared, it will be "the great generation...
...conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing to the voters' bankbook is never dangerous. The President understands this well. He believes one of the reasons he lost the 1960 election was that the Republicans had allowed the economy to slow down. But he remains convinced that he can control the economy by cutbacks in Government...
...rally" in the State Department's west auditorium. They got a welcome from Agnew and briefings on Cambodia and the economy. Nixon held a Cabinet meeting, the first since April 13, but left after 90 minutes without hearing any discussion of the Hickel letter or of dissent on the nation's campuses...
...Rising Dissent...