Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Johnson visited the sailors and marines in Ward 4-C, who had hung a get-well sign from their window, took a two-mile walk, put in a few practice putts, held an impromptu press conference, and signed the $3.2 billion foreign aid bill, with a warning that "accomplishments...
Next day, his 14th in the hospital, Johnson returned to the White House on schedule. Before departing, he visited marines who had been wounded in Viet Nam. "I feel like one of the fellow casualties," he cracked to one group. To others, more seriously wounded, he said: "Guys like you...
The Elusive Target. The basic U.S. strategy in Viet Nam today, now that its defensive enclaves are secured, is to go over to the offensive, hitting out from the bases in fairly large-scale thrusts at main V.C. striking forces-to break them up, keep them off balance, erode their...
The very success of U.S. firepower so far is likely to make big kills harder and harder to come by, as Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province last week proved. An estimated 45,000 Viet Cong have been in Binh Dinh, and in the largest operation of the war, 14...
To frustrate such intervention, the U.S. had to move militarily into the Dominican civil war. The U.S., said Mann, supported neither the so-called "reactionary" right nor the "constitutionalist" left, but worked for a cease-fire and a long-range solution. Would the U.S. do it again? Of course, suggested...