Word: nixon
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While Barrett attended Harvard, Sen. Robert F.Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.) and Rev. Martin Luther KingJr. were assassinated; the Vietnam War escalated;and Richard M. Nixon succeeded Lyndon B. Johnsonas President...
...Nobody thought Nixon was human," says Powers,who is a Crimson editor. "Once you were not ofschool you were drafted--the Draft Board likedmaking examples of those [college] kids...
...those peers is Bill Reishtein, 41, a Chicago ad executive, who says Clinton is "betraying a generation." Adds Reishtein, who opposed the Vietnam War: "I consider him a Richard Nixon without perspiration. Clinton has such strong communications skills, it's almost worse." Talk-show host Wade says he knows what makes his listeners' blood boil. "Clinton has this inability to tell the whole truth. He knows how to skate the issue -- 'I didn't break any laws, I didn't inhale' -- through rhetoric...
Kissinger's tone shifts from academic to defensive when he discusses Vietnam and his own turn on the world stage, as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He pounds away at the naivete of the peace movement, the hypocrisy of the Establishment and the perfidy of the North Vietnamese. And he dismisses the notion that America's national interests would have been better served if Nixon had set an early withdrawal date (and in the process lands a little jab -- "Would that history were as simple as journalism" -- at the contrary treatment...
Kissinger casts Nixon as a realist, the first in the White House since Theodore Roosevelt. To support this contention, he quotes from Nixon's annual foreign policy reports, which Kissinger himself wrote. But as Kissinger admits, Nixon placed a picture of the unabashed idealist Woodrow Wilson in the Cabinet Room and repeatedly proclaimed the altruism of American policy. It amounted to a combination that Kissinger rather disparagingly calls "novel" but which seems to me quintessentially American...