Word: support
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When France withdrew from Vietnam and again from Algeria, although there accumulated much popular support respectively behind Mendes-France and de Gaulle, these near parallels to our own proposed action are also quite different in that leadership in these painful disengagement's over there came from the head of government. And in the American Revolution, although there was indeed Edmund Burke, who could see English principles victorious in the rise of the Revolutionary Republic, it was the thirteen colonies themselves who wrought the victory...
...reduce the total program and alter its direction, we must reduce the institutional base of support," he added...