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Such expansiveness led Kennedy into Vietnam. And that led liberals not just to desert the Vietnam adventure, but to desert the very vision of American internationalism that Kennedy, and Democrats from Harry Truman to Hubert Humphrey, had championed...
Female personnel tend to be more tolerant of their lesbian colleagues. "You aren't hearing it from women because women are more accepting about lesbians," says Mary Ann Humphrey, a former captain in the Army reserves who was discharged in 1987. "Their womanhood is not threatened like a man's manhood is when he's around a gay man." Perhaps women's experience with male sexual harassment has made them less skittish about other forms of torment. Or perhaps it is simply less taboo for women to hug and kiss in public...
That doesn't mean lesbians have it easy. According to Humphrey, who wrote a history of homosexuals in the U.S. military titled My Country, My Right to Serve, women are expelled 10 times as often as men for their sexual orientation. Amy, a medical corpsman at the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida, feels so threatened that she pretends to date a male gay friend of hers. "I grab crotches, I make sexual innuendos," she says. "The more they suspect, the more I try to cover up." Recently, a married male officer made overtures. She did not file a sexual...
...strength that helped anchor the unforced ebullience of her personality. When a film required it, she could really dig in her heels. Billy Wilder's Sabrina, which quickly followed Roman Holiday, showed her torn between the smooth bachelor blandishments of William Holden and the tempered, literally businesslike attentions of Humphrey Bogart. Hepburn made the right choice -- the heart's choice -- as she would continue to do in all her best-remembered movies. Past the sorcery of her sensuality, with its inviolate innocence, and past her great beauty, Hepburn wooed and won her audience because she always played a character whose...
...LATE '40S, AMERICAN LIBERALISM MADE A FATEFUL decision: it went into the business of excommunication. Liberalism's leading lights -- figures like Joseph Rauh, Walter Reuther and Hubert Humphrey -- understood that unless they clearly separated themselves from communists and their fellow travelers they risked losing not just their souls but their political viability. Hence Principle 6 of the founding statement of Americans for Democratic Action: "We reject any association with Communists or sympathizers with communism...