Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with the Chief Executive. When it came to the point of choosing between certain defeat of the South Vietnamese armies and the introduction of U.S. ground combat units, Johnson chose to fight. Except for such critics as General James Gavin, the never-again club was disbanded. As Professor Hans Morgenthau puts...
...seeking his first term in 1961, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty insisted that "to ensure healthy democratic processes" and thwart any "self-interest group that feeds on continued control of city hall," eight years in the mayor's office should be the limit. That argument helped Sam to defeat a two-term incumbent. However, after eight years in city hall, he decided that they were scarcely sufficient after...
...Communist army escaped destruction in southern China at the hands of Chiang Kais-hek's Kuomintang forces by fighting its way more than 6,000 miles to the safety of the Yenan redoubts. During World War II, Lin fought against the Japanese invaders in China, later helped defeat Nationalist troops in the civil war. Supposedly, he was wounded in Korea, perhaps by a U.S. bomb. If so, the injury may help explain his poor health and frequent absences from political life for medical treatment...
...leadership. Though he despised Wisconsin's demagogic Senator Joseph McCarthy, he refused to say a public word against him?even when McCarthy viciously attacked George Marshall, and even when a word from the President might have brought McCarthy to heel. "I am convinced that the way for me to defeat Senator McCarthy is to ignore him," Eisenhower noted in a personal memo in April 1953. "Never to admit that he has damaged me, upset me, or anything else." Again, Ike's above-the-battle concept of the presidency was partly responsible for his party's loss in the 1954 congressional...
...more and more young Americans refuse to accept any disparity between U.S. ideals and U.S. realities. There is something gallant about a generation that questions a doubtful war, racial injustice, poverty amid plenty and ecological destruction. But the danger is that the reckless invocations of revolution and violence will defeat the very reforms that the most thoughtful of the protesters desire...