Word: nixon
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Americans are inclusive and interdependent, positive and optimistic. John F. Kennedy ’40 (a Crimson editor) beats Richard M. Nixon. Equal opportunity beats targeted resentment. And the candidate with the sun on his face will beat the candidate with Bob Shrum...
Kerry tells his campaign audiences how, as a returning Vietnam vet, he stood up to the waste and carnage and injustice of what he calls "Nixon's war." All true, except for one inconvenient fact. The man who got us into Vietnam--committing what is arguably the most egregious presidential misjudgment of the 20th century--was not Nixon. It was Kerry's political hero, John F. Kennedy: Ivy League, U.S. Navy, decorated officer whose wartime valor propelled him to Massachusetts Senator and then Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Sound familiar? So much for biography...
Kerry spokesperson David Wade said in a written statement, “The G.O.P. must be terrified of John Kerry if they’re obsessing over statements of a 26-year-old Vietnam veteran angry at the Nixon White House’s indifference to soldiers dying in the frontlines thousands of miles away...
Silent Majority 1968 Conservatives who rejected '60s radicalism but had little visibility until Richard Nixon gave them a name--and mobilized them by promising national unity and victory in Vietnam
...Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation stands...