Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue that the whole enterprise was basically a simple product of Hoover's obsessions, because none of the groups targeted represented a plausible threat to national security. But if one believes, as I do, that the anti-war movement played a decisive role in forcing the end of the Vietnam war by limiting American military and political options, and that the New Left potentially represented a serious movement for social change, then the basic anxieties of the FBI seem more rational...
From 1959-61 Kistiakowsky was President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science, a post created to restore American scientific and technological leadership after the Soviet success with Sputnik I. He severed all ties with the Defense Department in 1968 after being "double-crossed about Vietnam," he said...
...great emphasis on the writer's own role, slightly wooden style, exaggeration of the bits of history the writer happens to know about first-hand. And even if a little positive revisionism on Johnson-particularly about his role in civil rights--might be a good thing, knowing that his Vietnam policy stemmed from his relationship with his mother seems, in the end, only to trivialize what happened there...
Their influence and range of activities are all the more amazing because none of them really strayed far from family-owned concerns in their perambulations; through these concerns in their perambulations; through these concerns they were able to have a major hand in the Vietnam War, the growth of the CIA, the shaping of the Cold War, presidential and cabinet selections, even world population patterns. All these things are tangential to the central, family-related drama of the book, and indeed Collier and Horowitz leave the way open for someone else to do a book on what the Rockefellers...
Stanley called the present situation similar to the series of events that led to the Vietnam war, adding that American intervention in the Philippines would inevitably lead to another long and fruitless Asian guerrilla...