Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American ambassador. For six exhausting years he exercised more authority than most of his diplomatic colleagues ever dreamed of possessing. Always immaculate, even in Saigon's long, humid afternoons, always self-possessed, even in the face of deliberate snubs from the South Viet Nam government, Ellsworth Bunker, for better or worse, was at the epicenter of the longest and most difficult war in American history...
...Bunker came to the country during a peak period of American involvement on the battlefront. Eventually he came round to the fact that Viet Nam was essentially a political rather than a military war-and helped speed the withdrawal of American G.I.s from the combat zones. At the same time, he tried to assure the government of Nguyen Van Thieu that it was not being sold down the Mekong. The solution he so staunchly advocated-Vietnamization-was adopted, but its long-run efficacy will be argued for years to come...
...multiple controversies exploded in Washington, the city turned jittery. Declared a high Administration official about the staff in the White House: "It's like the last days in a Berlin bunker in 1945. They're all sitting there waiting for the bombs to drop...
...skeleton unearthed last December half a mile from the site of Hitler's bunker was indisputably that of Bormann, said Horst Gauf, the Hesse state prosecutor whose office was in charge of the case. He said that bone and dental evidence made it a "certainty" that theoft-seen phantom had died in the fall of Berlin. He therefore ordered all search warrants quashed; any future reports that Bormann has been sighted will be officially ignored...
...newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Saigon rather resembles his predecessor-tall, spare, white-haired, with a patrician bearing that exudes authority. There the resemblance ends. While the retiring Ellsworth Bunker has a genial courtliness that enables him to get along with almost anyone, Graham Martin is aloof, tough and taciturn-so much so that he has alienated many people. Nonetheless, both friends and critics agree that Martin is well suited for the hard job ahead...