Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the public fretting of Professor Stanley Hoffmann-was not Sarajevo. Nor was Saigon, as we once thought, Munich. The real "lesson" of Viet Nam is not, as we are so often told, that everything from Central America to the Middle East is Viet Nam (or some other convenient fiasco). It is that facile historical analogies can prove fatal...
...Bassette, receivers Roger Javens and Kevin Moriarty--only three have consistently been healthy enough to play. Andrie, last year's Ivy rushing champ, broke an arm in pre-season missed a few games and has never quite gotten on track. Curtin got hurt the week before the Boston College fiasco...
...been in the office almost as long as Kennedy. It is fascinating, though complicated, that the youngest elected President, who occupied the White House for the shortest (elected) term since Warren Harding-and who had a problematic tenure, very much a learning process and a mixed bag of one fiasco and many missteps and some accomplishments-should be thus elevated, by the force of his presence, his vivid charm, to the company of the greatest Presidents, as if the inspirational power of personality were enough for greatness. Perhaps it is. Many Americans make the association. Yet what sways them...
...their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality of an act. After the Bay of Pigs, Bowles wrote: "The Cuban fiasco demonstrates how far astray a man as brilliant and well-intentioned as President Kennedy can go who lacks a basic moral reference point...
...Pigs fiasco, however, came early. Kennedy had inherited the plan from the Eisenhower Administration, which, according to Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, had already sunk $40 million into the training of a band of Cuban exiles who were supposed to sweep ashore in Cuba, join forces with the grateful, disenchanted islanders and dislodge Fidel Castro. Kennedy was skeptical of the idea, but allowed himself to be talked into it by men who seemed so sure of what they were doing. The mission, of course, was an utter disaster, and it taught Kennedy several important lessons. One was that truculently self...