Word: legacyism
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In a funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the...
Kennedy felt he had to make Vietnam an example of his resolve, says Baritz, Johnson inherited the enormous legacy of JFK. And Nixon, with his duplicitous henchman Henry A. Kissinger '50 saw in Vietnam the political opportunity to carry them to the White House and keep them there while they...
Although he never explicitly states it, Jackson well knows that he relies heavily on the legacy of Martin Luther King. He refers to King at every opportunity, he emulates King on the podium. But he's nothing like King. King was moral, Jackson is political and opportunistic; he does not...
Albania, an isolated, mountainous country of 2.9 million people, is a place of bleak statistics. It is Europe's poorest nation, and one of the world's most closed societies. Its harsh internal policies place it among the last bastions of Stalinism. This is the legacy of Enver Hoxha (pronounced...
But the U.S. is unlikely to have anywhere near that much time to decide what lessons to draw from Viet Nam and how to apply them. The initial impulse after the American withdrawal was to avoid any foreign involvement that might conceivably lead to a commitment of U.S. troops. Scholars...