Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman Dr. Phan Quang Dan said last week during a U.S. tour. Similarly, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson maintained that the U.S. "suffered a smashing, catastrophic psychological defeat" as a result of Tet?but only because it was "a defeat which we imposed on ourselves...
Self-imposed Defeat. Johnson stuck it out, and in the end got a better deal. His offer of an unconditional, if partial, bombing pause, backed up by his renunciation of a second term, was an astonishingly risky move for a notoriously cautious operator. Having gambled so much, the President was not interested in showcase talks that would impress the world but accomplish little. Consequently, he considered it important not merely that the talks should get started, but also that they should get started in the proper way, without allowing the U.S. to labor under the considerable disadvantage of negotiating...
...Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec in 1944, where F.D.R. and Churchill agreed to press the war against Japan after Hitler's defeat...
...abortive tries for the Democratic presidential nomination (1952 and 1956), coupled with the defeat at Rocky's hands, dimmed the Harriman aura for awhile, but John Kennedy brought him back into public service in 1961. As an ambassador at large, Harriman conducted the sensitive negotiations that brought about the 1962 Geneva accords on Laos. A year later, he represented the U.S. during the nuclear test-ban talks and initialed the treaty with Andrei Gromyko and Britain's Lord Hailsham-perhaps the high point of Harriman's career...
John Anderson, a fired-up Eli sophomore, handed Jarvis his second singles defeat of the year, 6-4, 7-5. "The Rock" never really found his game and committed several critical fluffs to seal his own doom...