Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly more perceptive. President Thieu, for instance, actively believed that the U.S. military had conspired with the Communists to bring about the Tet campaign. He suspected that a Communist success would force a coalition government on Saigon, and thereby speed up the prospect of American withdrawal. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker appeared on Saigon television to deny "this ridiculous claim," it was confirmation to many South Vietnamese that the rumors and accusations were true...
Host at a small dinner at his Saigon villa last spring, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker allowed as how western-styled democracy had been "grafted" onto the autocratic, family-oriented society of South Viet Nam. One of his guests joked, "Mr. Ambassador, why do you use the word graft, when it has so many connotations in this country?" Bunker smiled and replied, "Because I do not want to use the word imposed...
...curb Thieu's efforts to "arrange" the election, the Embassy sat on its hands while he prepared to carve Ky out of the race. Last June, when the decisive presidential election law was being rammed through the Lower House (with a wad of U.S. tax dollars), Ambassador Bunker himself was out of the country, attending his 55th Yale reunion...
Minutes after the group had gathered, rocks ripped through the church windows and fire bombs exploded eight motorcycles and a Jeep. McGovern and his aides took cover in the church office, but it required three frantic calls to the U.S. embassy, one of them to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, before American MPs rescued the Senator...
...virtual control over everyone Hitler saw and everything Hitler read. As executor of Hitler's estate, he was the first to enter the room in the Führerbunker after Hitler's suicide. Turning the government over to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Bormann fled the bunker on the night of May 1, 1945, in an attempt to slip through the tightening Soviet ring of tanks and troops only 300 yards away. Somewhere between the bunker and Friedrichstrasse Station, Martin Bormann vanished...