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...both to capture the immediacy of those old crises and to give them retrospective meaning. Unfortunately, the author has a somewhat blinkered sense of self-awareness. He rightly credits the student movement with helping to raise the nation's consciousness on such issues as black civil rights and the Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core...
...Hickory Hill, Bobby's estate in Virginia. "I shared with Ethel an enthusiasm for tennis," he says. He also sometimes met with Bobby on Saturdays. "He would go to his office wearing old clothes, with his dog Brumus and kids trailing behind," Gorey recalls. "We would talk about Viet Nam and the speculation that he would challenge Lyndon Johnson for the White House." When Bobby finally declared his candidacy, Gorey covered what became an exhilarating campaign -- and a national tragedy. Gorey was across the room at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5 when Kennedy was assassinated...
...campaigned on the premise that the voters are tired of charisma. But Bobby was able to spark excitement by articulating dreams. Given today's dearth of passion, it is no wonder that the young people who embraced politics in the '60s -- and whose faith in government was undermined by Viet Nam, assassinations and Watergate -- should remember Kennedy as a hero...
...hours following Al Gore's impressive showing on Super Tuesday, it seemed that the Tennessee Senator had rewritten the rules of the primary process and lived up to his promise of being the best and brightest of a new political generation. The Harvard-educated Viet Nam veteran had it all: a subtle and supple mind tempered by a self-aware sense of humor, the savvy of a Southern bull breeder mixed with the polish of a Georgetown Prince Charming. Yet somehow he managed to rack up a woeful string of defeats in the Northern states until he finally limped away...
Though the Geneva accord will fall short of bringing immediate peace to Afghanistan, the signing was a remarkable turning point in the struggle. Much as the U.S. did in South Viet Nam, Moscow has decided to retire from a conflict it cannot win. An estimated 30,000 Soviet troops have died in the eight-year conflict (compared with nearly 50,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam). The mujahedin denounced the accord last week, largely because they were not invited to participate, but they are nonetheless gleeful over the Soviet retreat. Said Nabi Mohammadi, the leader of Harakat...