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Author Robert Timberg, now deputy Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun, is himself an Annapolis graduate and Marine veteran of Vietnam. Covering the Reagan White House as the Iran-contra affair unfolded during the 1980s, Timberg "kept picking up echoes of Vietnam ... I remember thinking that perhaps Iran-contra was at least in part the bill for Vietnam finally coming due." Timberg had been told that the nightingale cannot perform unless it first hears a few notes from another nightingale. His conceit is that in the '80s, Ronald Reagan sang the nightingale's song of patriotism and military pride...
...McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME's Lance Morrowfinds a "tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
Judith M. Stoia, Boston public television's nightly news editor, Jan C. Stucker, of the Columbia Record, and Robert Timberg, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun will also be Nieman fellows...
...H.C.U.A. member, Tom Timberg '64, said he favors "abolition of parietal rules." That is, he said he prefers no restrictions on the hours students can entertain girls in their rooms...
Harvard men arrested include Johnson, Todd A. Gitlin '63 national president of Students for a Democratic Society, Richard J. Rothstein '63, John H. Ehrenreich '63, and Thomas A. Timberg...