Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside Dallas Memorial Auditorium, delivering his first campaign stump speech of 1968, the President assumed the stance that he now apparently plans to maintain until Election Day. In a 27-minute address to National Rural Electric Cooperative Association conventioners, Johnson reached back to his own political youth and the New Deal, draping the cape of Franklin Roosevelt over his own presidency by reciting the Administration's record on Medicare, education, the war on poverty, and social security benefits. The Great Society, said Johnson-invoking a term that has been notably missing from recent presidential pronouncements-is "taking root...
...choose a candidate partly according to his views on the war, 55% on his ability to manage the economy and-.perhaps reflecting the credibility gap attributed to Johnson-41% on the candidate's sincerity and conviction. Since New Hampshire is largely made up of small towns in a rural setting, only 25% thought "crime and violence in the streets" was a crucial issue...
HANOI'S war-time strategy could have important effects in what the communists call the "cultural" sphere as well. By dispersing city populations throughout rural areas, it is bringing more politically conscious urban workers and university students into contact with the North's relatively backward peasant masses. While ostensibly the product of a mass revolution. North Vietnam seems to be having real problems with its peasantry, which has resisted regimentation more persistently than China's rural classes. The regime may be hoping the example of a dedicated urban phalanx and the patient persuasion of students will bring around some recalcitrant...
...able to move out on pacification tasks. In some areas, supposed pacification has been exposed as cunning window dressing. The fortified villages outside Hué, which until Tet were considered showplaces of pacification in I Corps, last week resupplied the North Vietnamese defenders inside the city. So hostile has rural Viet Nam turned that last week the International Voluntary Services, whose teachers and agricultural advisers have scrupulously tried to work independently of the war, regretfully announced that it was withdrawing more than 100 of its fieldworkers (out of 155) because of "security conditions...
...back, Joe McCarthy was similarly elevated, says Smith, but he at least was a U.S. Senator. Carmichael is "basically a nobody, who, before the press took notice of him, had achieved nothing. He failed to win a following-except from us with our cameras and note pads-in the rural South and in the city ghettos." Thanks to the big play the press gave Carmichael, however, a civil rights leader recently told Smith, "if I say no to Stokely, you fellows won't print it in one sentence on the back page. My people think I am doing nothing...