Word: ofamerican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chester Atkins (D-Mass) charged thatthe American policy of supporting the Khmer Rougeas the only alternative to the Vietnamese-backedcommunist government in Phnom Penh "will go downas one of the greatest moral travesties ofAmerican action of all time...
Bush said, "I am not going to give carte blanche support to an operation, particularly when they don't ask for this support. And I have to reserve that right. I have at stake the lives ofAmerican kids and I am not going to easily thrustthem into a battle unless I feel comfortable withit and unless those general officers in whom Ihave total confidence feel comfortable...
Schlesinger, the author of "Cycles of AmericanHistory," also discussed "the extreme brevity ofAmerican history," He recalled that as a youth hisfather told him of conversations with former Harvard PresidentA Lawrence Lowell, who admitted his embarassmentthat Lowell's father voted for Abraham Lincoln inthe 1860 Presidential election...
...candidates haven't really thought abouthigher education and these problems," said RobertM. Rosenzweig, president of the Association ofAmerican Universities (AAU), a Washington, D.C.group representing the nation's 54 most prominentresearch universities...
...first two directors were dedicated membersof the academy, Neustadt and Warren Professor ofAmerican History Ernest R. May. Later, Moore, whohas held senior positions in government, ran theInstitute for 12 years. Moore left the IOP whenPresident Reagan named him ambassador-at-large, incharge of refugee affairs...