Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hovde, on the other hand, thinks a condemnation of the war would have been "overwhelmingly defeated." This does not mean that a majority of the faculty favors Johnson's policy in Southeast Asia; only that a majority feels that the faculty should not take a stand, qua faculty, on such an issue...
...President was caught up in the series of decisions that led to the large-scale introduction of ground forces into Vietnam later that summer. The address at Howard was in a sense his last peacetime speech. Thereafter, one would assume, his mind was increasingly pre-occupied with war in Asia. This did not entail any backtracking on the commitment "To Fulfill These Rights," but it did mean that the White House was not going to think up a program to do so. The energies of that tiny group at the apex of government were now directed else-where...
...this region is to write 'Yankee Go Home' on every wall. It's in their subconscious, even though they realize the Americans mean well and we need their protection. Now we're trying to build a substitute for the United States-a United States of Asia. That's the dream now." It is only a paper dream, when measured against the near chaos that prevails in much of Asia. Still, it is significant that Asian countries no longer look to Communist China as the model for economic development, are willing to submerge at least some...
...often dismiss Viet Nam as a little country of little strategic consequence, it was Viet Nam -then Indo-China-that played a major role in getting the U.S. into World War II. When Japan moved into the region in 1941, thereby gaining a commanding geographical position in South-east Asia-to say nothing of a wealth of rubber resources-the U.S. considered the situation threatening enough to freeze all Japanese assets. Japan's countermove came just four months later-at Pearl Harbor...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. roosts neither with the hawks nor the all-out doves. Admittedly, he is unhappy that the U.S. ever got involved there, but he argues in this slender book, drawn chiefly from three recent magazine articles, that "our precipitate withdrawal now would have ominous reverberations throughout Asia." He thinks the U.S. must "stop widening and Americanizing the war," but he has no illusions about the cutthroat, terrorist tactics of the Viet Cong, and he does not want them to take over South Viet Nam. What, then, is the U.S. to do? Says Schlesinger: "We must oppose further...