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...first dustup occurred in Iowa, where the Democratic presidential candidates were appearing at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner for party activists. John Glenn set the tone by suggesting that Walter Mondale had been slavishly catering to a wide array of special-interest groups in his quest for the party's presidential nomination. "Will we offer a party that can't say no to anyone with a letterhead and a mailing list?" the Ohio Senator asked. When Mondale's turn came, he pushed aside his prepared text and zeroed in on his opponent's vote in favor...
...startling portrait of Ho Chi Minh. The program shows how Ho, a charismatic leader, actually received aid and training for his troops from the U.S.; he also rescued downed American flyers in Vietnam and saved them from the Japanese. At the end of WWII. Ho proclaimed, using Thomas Jefferson's very words, a Vietnamese Declaration of Independence Meanwhile, the British released and rearmed recently captured Japanese so that they-might destroy the Vietminh and restore control to the French who after a humiliating European war, wanted to keep their colony...
...James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson...
...days that shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...showed up at Woodstock. Thousands more would have come if police had not blocked off access roads, which had become ribbonlike parking lots choked with stalled cars. The lure of the festival was an all-star cast of top rock artists, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane. But the good vibrations of good groups turned out to be the least of it. What the youth of America-and their observing elders-saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S. Thousands...