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...drinking and Kerouac reading before graduation. But there's another way to regard that extra year: as a peace dividend. A generation ago, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the idea of a year off from college was dangerously ridiculous. Leaving school meant a one-way ticket to Saigon. Two generations ago it was Korea. Three generations ago, war-torn Europe or the inferno of the Pacific. My generation has had the blessing of growing up in peaceful times, and it has made all the difference. That fifth year of college has given us, in the best sense...
Everything is set somewhere. Miss Saigon, Les Mis, Cats. Most of these things are set in some time frame. And people have an interest in it. The message is universal. It may be set in New York, but it just as well could have been set in London, or in Los Angeles, but it happened to be set in New York. In terms of the message and in terms of the characters, they're easily identifiable anywhere else. In terms of the markets, all markets are local. They're all different, they put different spins on things. And in terms...
...used to the rough and tumble of congressional questioning. He had reached the job of his dreams at the NSC, only to see it be his undoing. "I consider this a personal tragedy," says Richard Holbrooke, who entered the foreign service with Lake and served with him in Saigon. "Tony was the most brilliant of the young group that came up together in Vietnam...
Midway through that event, a student burst into the auditorium to announce the surrender of the Saigon government...
Grunwald made many forays around the world, adding his own impressions to those of the correspondents who reported for his magazine. Like most of those in power at the time, he was reluctant to give up on America's war in Vietnam, but after one trip to Saigon, reported back to his colleagues in New York that the best result one could reasonably expect was a standoff with North Vietnam. He takes responsibility, however, for writing, above a TIME essay defending the war, this headline: THE RIGHT WAR AT THE RIGHT TIME...