Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his marked eastern Virginia drawl, Spong's knowledgeable discussions of the South's economic growth and Virginia's rapid urbanization show that he is quite different from the rural bosses who built their power in the South on segregation, economic stagnation, and a restricted electorate. The freshman Senator likes to emphasize his break with traditional Southern politics by exclaiming, with feigned astonishment and a trace of pride, "Why, did you know that I'm the first Virginia Senator ever elected from a city...
...plows and pamphlets. In both wars, the U.S. effort has been set back by months, and perhaps years, as a result of the Communists' recent attacks against the cities of the South. With the countryside wide open to Viet Cong soldiers, recruiters and tax collectors, the crucial rural-pacification effort is at a standstill. "We have had a hell of a setback," admitted a high-ranking U.S. official in Viet Nam. "To even mention 'the other war' at this time is just a lot of nonsense...
...being told all over Saigon last week. It dramatizes the feeling of fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect the population and even whether the U.S. really wants...
...largely rural Indiana district, Representative Lee Hamilton heard a Columbus storekeeper puzzle over the war: "I just don't know; people are more disturbed and confused than I have ever seen them." Some of Hamilton's constituents argued that the U.S. should attack North Viet Nam with nu clear weapons, but generally the mood was moderate...
...Southeast Asia, Galbraith has few complaints about Lyndon Johnson. "He's put all the right things on the plate in his domestic program, and apart from Viet Nam, he's been imaginative and flexible in his foreign policy," he says. Until the war, the two men, both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith had no trouble working for L.B.J. after the assassination?a fact that prompted some...