Word: ends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later decided that there were better places to fight the war than jail. The people who didn't receive 4-F's or 1-Y's took back their 2-S's. It was easy to say that the whole strategy of the Resistance about filling the jails to end the war was wrong. It was good to have a handy rationalization around...
What were our thoughts, American and Turkish alike? Simply, might all mankind be united at last and forever, with the prospect of a single world no more before us, but worlds without end whose peaceful conquest and whose endless beauty we might all share...
...things to different audiences. True, his comments were aimed at a variety of listeners, both face to face and far away: the Vietnamese and the Thais are still deeply involved in the outcome of a shooting war; others in Asia-and in the U.S.-are already looking beyond the end of that war; the North Vietnamese and Chinese Communists raptly read the tea leaves of presidential pronouncements for clues to the seriousness of the U.S. resolve. Yet precisely because what the U.S. President says in one place is instantly replayed in many others, consistency becomes not a hobgoblin...
...airborne again. He seemed genuinely moved by his meeting with the troops. "They make tears come to your eyes," he said. "There's a strength out there. If the political leadership can equal these men, we're going to bring this war to an end on the right basis, and before long." Of the South Vietnamese, he said: "They are going to make it." Saigon, Nixon observed, was not going to become "Ho Chi Minh City...
...agreement-none now exists-and to open formal discussions aimed at mutual extension of consular facilities. Most of the remaining time was spent discussing East-West relations, which both men are anxious to improve. In his toast to improving those relations during a state dinner at week's end, the President declared: "We are flexible about the methods by which peace is to be sought and built. We see value neither in the exchange of polemics nor in a false euphoria." In Nixon's precedent-breaking visit behind the Iron Curtain, very little of either was in evidence...