Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: General Wessin y Wessin is not preventing another Cuba. He is creating the conditions for it by preventing the return of the democratically elected President, whom he illegally deposed, and the re-establishment of the constitution, which he abolished. And we are helping him with it! First by recognizing...
Sir: Sending U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic is about as tactful as sending the Selma police force to handle a disturbance in Harlem.
Letter from lke Few men are more sensitive to criticism than President Johnson, and his mood was not notably improved by a demand from Charles de Gaulle that he pull the marines out of the Dominican Republic. Time and again during the week, Johnson pulled from his pocket a recent...
It may have been because of blurred intelligence estimates, but the President undoubtedly got the U.S. more deeply involved in the Dominican fighting than he had originally intended. Now, under his leadership, the nation's diplomatic efforts were bent-successfully-on winning a reluctant but historic decision to take...
The classic use of U.S. military intervention, has been to enforce respect for American lives and property. Thus, in 1801, marines landed in Tripoli to free the crew of a seized U.S. ship. In 1849, a U.S. naval force debarked in Turkey to gain the release of an imprisoned American...