Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every war needs a slogan--to rally the masses and pluck at their purse `strings. Something easy and original like "Remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine," and "Remember Pearl Harbor!" But so far, in the absence of any singularly memorable event in the Vietnamese war, the phrase epitomizing the spirit of the American fighting man has gone unspoken...
Khartoum looks something like the fall of the Alamo as told by Lawrence of Arabia. Three months in the filming in the desert along the Nile, this Cinerama spectacle enlisted the services of 2,500 Egyptian army troops for some of the noisiest slaughter scenes ever filmed. It took 70,000 gallons of water a day just to keep the cast from evaporating, and United Artists sent enough medical equipment out on location to serve a division in Viet Nam. Nonetheless Khartoum is not just another exercise in wide-screen warfare: emphasizing subtlety rather than savagery, it convincingly retells...
...Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's performance in foreign policy, Geyelin reports that the President sent the Marines to Santo Domingo with the cry that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit...
They aren't taking volunteers for the Alamo any more, and it is getting harder to find cannibals to invite to lunch. So what does a man do when he's bored and restless (and maybe a little masochistic) and has $50,000 or so to spend? He races powerboats...
...vague hope of achieving a stalemate, without substantially increasing the U.S. commitment was offered as a third possibility. But General William Westmoreland, the U.S. field commander, had urgently requested more men, and to turn him down, as the President said, would be like "hearing the call from the Alamo for help and answering that we're not coming...