Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except in the eyes of racists, who may consider Asian non-Communists more expendable than European ones, the same moral and psychological considerations apply in Viet Nam. They are reinforced by the fact that South Viet Nam occupies a key strategic position in relation to Southeast Asia-a point I have heard emphasized in Malaysia and Singapore...
WASHINGTON is basically an imperial seat plus slums plus liquor stores. The celebrated Mall stretches about a mile from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the shores of the Potomac. On either side of it loom numberless federal buildings. Except for the Pentagon, it's all right there. Most of the buildings are the familiar second-rate parodies of the Panthcon and, as Greenough pointed out over a hundred years ago, there is nothing sillier than America trying to be Corinthian. Perhaps every President for the last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted...
...neglected offspring of the Nixon Administration. The President has scarcely mentioned it in public, being more preoccupied with Vietnam and inflation. One could at least expect him to be concerned about the expense of an arms race. A momentous project like arms control requires vigorous leadership from Washington, which, except for John Mitchell, is a vacuum of such leader ship at the moment...
...line of march starts between monuments to two assassinated Presidents. It passes the monuments to America's deadly bureaucracy-enormous buildings shining under flood-lights, deserted in the early morning except by police inside...
There were few observers except for marshals and police, and fewer hecklers. But one man stood outside the Internal Revenue Service and called out, "Did you ask Earl Patterson if he wanted you to carry that light? How about Patrick...