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...Hart, whose speech traced the political odyssey of his generation from its optimistic beginnings in the early 1960s to the age of pere-stroika, said the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40 and the disillusionment of the Vietnam War made citizens realize the limits of American power...
...frustrated," Hart said. "We couldn't even get small nations like Vietnam to behave the way we thought they should...
...Hart said this frustration, compounded by the fierce Cold War with the Soviet Union, carried over into the 1980s, when Americans found comfort in Ronald Reagan's simple, traditional values and his emphasis on individualism...
...focused on personal success," Hart said. "As usual when the pendulum swings, it swung too far. I would say the metaphor for the eighties was personal greed and debt...
...Hart, who is currently working as an advisor to American companies doing business in Eastern Europe, expressed his admiration for Gorbachev and the democratic revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe. But he also said the political changes have left the United States without a unifying principle as it enters the 1990s...