Word: nixon
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...involved in Southeast Asia 20 years before American soldiers began to die there in large numbers. From Truman to Nixon, U.S. Presidents propped up undemocratic and unpopular South Vietnamese regimes and lied about the extent of American participation in the war. In the 1960s these immoral policies, justified only by anticommunist rhetoric and concerns about U.S. prestige and hegemony, composed the framework of anti-war protest...
During the Vietnam era the world community was just as clear in its condemnation of U.S. policy as it has been in support of it today. Certainly the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam under Richard M. Nixon was at least in part motivated by serious concerns that foreign opposition to the war was deteriorating America's ability to conduct foreign affairs. Today, even Arab nations have joined the international force in Saudi Arabia...
...time has come . . . and gone . . . and come again, sounding a little more querulous with each return, like any good intention that has been put off much too long. It was once, way back in the 1930s, a brisk, young, up-and-coming idea. By the late '60s, when Richard Nixon first declared a health-care "crisis," it was already beginning to sound a little middle-aged and weary. Today, with the health-care situation moving rapidly beyond crisis to near catastrophe, the age-old and obvious solution has the tone of a desperate whine: Why can't we have national...
...Some critics charge such a turnabout is conceivable only because drug abuse, which continues to rage in poor ghetto areas, has sharply declined within the white middle class. If the Federal Government were to withdraw from the field, it would not be for the first time. In 1973 Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. had "turned the corner on drug addiction." The federal antidrug effort was allowed to shrivel even as Colombia's "cocaine cowboys" were establishing their first beachhead in Miami. Some battlefield reports from the latest round...
...same combination worked for Alaska's Walter Hickel, who served from 1966 to 1969 as the state's Republican Governor and later as Nixon's Secretary of the Interior. Though he did not enter the race until mid-September, Hickel led in the polls by spending at least $800,000. Hickel ran under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party -- a secessionist fringe group -- but used it merely as a flag of convenience: he signaled to voters that he was basically in accord with G.O.P. positions and promised to fight for further oil development in Alaska...