Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court decided in the Weber case [July 9] that discrimination is acceptable as a means to end discrimination. This logic reminds me of nothing so much as those haunting words from the war in Viet Nam: we had to destroy the town in order to save...
Could it just possibly be that those who said 15 years ago that we had a moral obligation to intervene in Southeast Asia in order to prevent an oppressively totalitarian Communist regime from turning Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos into a bloody nightmare were right after...
...country in this last week, and for a number of months I've been particularly concerned about the attitude of people. When I ran for President, I tapped the basic problems of our nation: the shocking assassination of J.F.K. and the ignominious defeat that we suffered in Viet Nam. A realization for the first time that our nation has limited natural resources [came] in 1973-74 with the oil embargo. In some ways the nation has not gotten over this...
July 20, 1969 doesn't seem like such a long time ago. Most of the problems and personalities of that day have changed, but to those who grew up in the sixties, they were facts of life. The body count from Viet Nam, every night from Huntley and Brinkley, interrupted by cigarette commercials. Ghetto riots in the summer didn't make the news unless they were big ghetto riots (the little ones were expected.) July was too hot for big anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed...
Once they saw aye to aye on getting out of Viet Nam. Now Folk Singer Joan Baez and Actress Jane Fonda are at war. The break began over Baez's open letter to Hanoi protesting jails jammed with 200,000 political prisoners and the use of captives as human mine detectors. Invited to sign, Fonda demurred. Baez, she explained, was aligning herself "with the most narrow and negative elements in our country, who continue to believe that Communism is worse than death." Retorted Baez: "I don't have any ideological yoke around my neck that blinds...