To: Brumar89 who wrote (2792 ) 2/16/2004 9:40:13 PM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to I found a LARGE ammunition dump:csulb.edu During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson charged that news organizations undermined the chance to negotiate peace. (6) News reporters left the impression that the Communists were victorious during the Tet Offensive (Small 82, 139). He called protesters cowardly, particularly given that U.S troops were spending holidays away from their families "in a lonely and dangerous land" (Johnson, 1965, 1125-26). Two years later, Johnson claimed that American fighting men resented the cheap talk of these protesters (Johnson, 1967, 1013). Ambassador Averill Harriman scolded The New York Times for promoting the view that the United States lacked dedication to the Vietnam cause. In 1947, three years before Joseph McCarthy came to the fore, President Harry S. Truman supported congressional investigations of unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, then headed by Ronald Reagan. Once war was declared in 1917, Woodrow Wilson encouraged the Congress to pass the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and, a year later, the Sedition Act. (12) There is a tendency to allow Franklin Roosevelt's internment of American citizens of Japanese descent to obscure other questionable policies initiated by Roosevelt during the war. Near the end of March, 1942, George Christians, the chief officer of the Fascist Crusader White Shirts, and Rudolph Fahl of Denver were arrested for disseminating material that could demoralize the army. In early April, five more seditionists were arrested. The President took pride in the operation during his "Fireside Chat" later in the month: "this great war effort . . . must not be impeded by a few bogus patriots who use the sacred freedom of the press to echo the sentiments of the propagandists in Tokyo and Berlin." All of those from the March-April group were convicted by the end of the Summer of 1942 except Fahl. By the end of the year, 150 persons had been arrested for seditious statements or publications (Washburn 722).
