Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...express our opposition to Communism in the military context. That would be much too simple an answer, but we see the challenge clearly and the need to meet it all along the line. So do not be misled into thinking us soft. Some of our enemies made that mistake. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. The memorial to him in London is a railway station called Waterloo. Shopkeepers we may be, but neither our principles nor our alliances are for sale...
...large Indian army. The pursuing Americans saw the gates of the British fort close in the face of the fleeing Indians. Indian trust of their British allies disappeared in smoking rage, and their attacks ceased. The national government had proved itself. Separatist sentiments evaporated. Less than a decade later, Napoleon sold the U.S. a Louisiana Territory he couldn't have held. The flatboat and Fallen Timbers had made it clear who owned America...
Western influences pop up every where throughout the country. Despite a scarcity of eggs and meat, store win dows display Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, Napoleon brandy and a selection of Scotch. Modern art hangs on gallery walls, and newspaper censorship has been relaxed; when President Kennedy's sisters, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, visited Budapest, television and radio crews dogged their footsteps. Restrictions against travel to the West have been eased; long lines of visa applicants daily queue up outside Western embassies in Budapest, and it is now chic for vacationing Hungarian couples to agree to meet in Venice...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller nervously tapped the dead microphone that stood before him in the Napoleon Room of Miami Beach's marble-and-glass Deauville Hotel. "Somebody's cut my wire," he grinned. Far from getting his wires cut, Rockefeller did some aggressively effective wire-cutting himself at the 55th annual Governors Conference in Miami Beach last week. Leading an outnumbered but united phalanx of Republican Governors, he outmaneuvered the Democrats, achieved a thumping tactical triumph for his party by embarrassing the Democrats on the nation's prickliest domestic issue: civil rights...
...doesn't even hit the high spots." This kind of historical analysis, however, is not limited to the strictly historical section alone. In a subsection of the chapter on communications, for instance, the author attributes the fall of the First French Empire to a lack of rapid communication between Napoleon and his lieutenants...