Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is inside war, and there is outside war. Most of us have watched Vietnam only from the outside--where battles are spread out in the distance for everyone to see, where you can choose sides and keep score. But inside war, there is no coherence, only ignorance and confusion...
...Spread in the Wind. During Johnson's push for the presidential nomination at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Connally again proved his loyalty by circulating questioning stories about John Kennedy's health and raising the issue of Joseph Kennedy's isolationist sentiments before the war. Nonetheless, after Kennedy was elected, he appointed Connally Secretary of the Navy, partly to please Vice President Johnson. Within a year Connally quit and returned to Texas, where in 1962 he successfully ran for Governor. He served until 1968, when he declined to run for a fourth term, telling friends he had had his fill...
This new policy left military bases surrounding China on South Korea, Japan, Quemoy-Matsu, and Taiwan. American theoreticians led by John Foster Dulles (and lauded by Congressman Richard Nixon) calculated that the spread of communism had to be stopped from reaching South East Asia, gold mine for new international markets and cheap labor. Without hesitation, America stepped up its support of the French war in Indo-China and took over the load in 1954. Later in the 60's, Secretary of State Dean Rusk staunchly supported this dual policy of containment of China and "protection of American interests...
...With the ostentatious Kennedy memorial in Washington [Sept. 20] blighting the hallowed Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, let's call a halt to this pharaoh-like trend. With L.B.J.'s marble spread in Texas, and that 1,500-ft. spire Nixon is probably planning for San Clemente, this self-memorialization indulgence is an ominous one. In our democracy, historic perspective delegates memorialization to posterity, not to the whims and vanities of self-aggrandizement...
...create new low pressure areas away from the eye. The new regions would, in turn, keep the swirling winds and water vapor from converging on the storm's vortex. Thus. the chimney would be deprived of its vital fuel and the hurricane's energy would be spread over a wider area. The ultimate effect would be to reduce the velocity of the winds...