Word: stylesâ
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...restive passivity. The fault lay not only with the three Presidents who prosecuted the war but with the executive elites with whom they surrounded themselves, hubristic warrior-intellectuals like McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow and Robert MacNamara. Under Lyndon Johnson, at least, there was an odd blending of machismo styles???the President's "coonskin-on-the-wall" Texas mystique with the cooler but no less assertive air of the intellectuals. This "cando" mentality, it may be, suffused the executive thinking, the very traditional American sense that an impelling will in harness to superior technology can solve any problem. That impulse...
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