Word: dovishness
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Some of the dovish Republicans tried to talk Riegle out of it, but he would not be denied his moment on center stage. Riegle offered his motion for the House to join the Senate in approving Cooper-Church. Wayne Hays of Ohio, a Democratic hawk, instantly asked House Speaker John McCormack who would assign the speaking time during the debate on Riegle's motion. Riegle, replied McCormack. The prospect of Riegle cavorting, however briefly, in even a minor leadership role was too much for Hays, a veteran of 22 years in the House. He moved to table Riegle...
...Jersey, the students fell into an opposite snare. They got thousands of voters to the polls-only to find them voting for the wrong man. Dovish Challenger Lewis Kaden failed by a wide margin in an effort to unseat Democratic Representative Edward Patten in the 15th District, right in the Princeton backyard of the M.N.C. No one can fault the students' energy; they got 3,000 more voters to take part in the congressional primary than voted in a U.S. Senate primary in the same district. But an analysis showed that blanket canvassing in pro-Kaden areas brought Patten...
...their hands. The course of the Viet Nam War could affect the election. Rockefeller has generally supported the White House on the war, but during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination two years ago, he outlined an alternative program. Goldberg, on the other hand, argued a relatively dovish position within the Johnson Administration, but, as Rockefeller has pointed out, he was the Administration's spokesman at the United Nations. Neither Goldberg nor Rockefeller can influence the faltering economy, and that could turn out to be the most decisive factor...
Byrd amendment, and the issue became in effect a vote of confidence in the President on Cambodia. As Idaho's dovish Senator Frank Church put it: "We stand up now, or we roll over and play dead." Republicans who had been engaging in a muted filibuster to block any substantive vote detected growing support for the President and permitted a vote. But on the roll call, the Administration lost some Republicans it had hoped to land, including William Saxbe of Ohio and Oregon's Robert Packwood. When the Byrd amendment was declared lost, 52 to 47, some spectators...
...buyers-but it bucked up the market for only a few days. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's promise last week that no U.S. troops would be involved in ground combat in Viet Nam after June 1971 is the sort of thing that a year ago might have stimulated dovish Wall Street into a month-long rally. Early last week, it could not push prices up for so long as two hours...