Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Steinbeck wrote on politics. In one letter, he compared President Kennedy to Launcelot, and in 1965 he wrote President Johnson, "You have placed your name among the great ones in history. And I take great pride in the fact that you are my President." Concerning the war in Vietnam, he told Johnson aide Jack Valenti in April 1965, "I wish the bombing wasn't necessary, but I suspect that our people on the ground know more about that than I do." Less than a year later, however, he went so far as to say, "There...
...movement and demonstrations against war-engineer Walt Rostow, where Rostow says something like, "I've never seen the effects of napalm but it can't be all that bad," and he (photographer, then student) turns down house lights and starts up a film showing bombs falling on North Vietnam, while Rostow (unaware of screen behind) continues to defend the war. That cynicism creeps back when the Gamma man talks about Reagan who, according to the Village Voice, last week justified rejecting amnesty by saying that the war should have been made legal and the U.S. should have stayed in there...
...ears with long catalogues of problems, kinds of people, possible solutions, more kinds of people, another problem, another catalogue of the American character, etc. "We've got a good country," he says, mountains, fields, streams, valleys, you name it. "And we have a good system of government. Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, Cambodia, ... haven't hurt it." There are problems, Carter says--unemployment, inflation--but he believes in the American character: "strength, wisdom, intelligence, courage..." The only specific solution he volunteered that was close to being specific was a new "sunshine law" to "open up the government" to public scrutiny...
...Harvard professors, speaking yesterday at a rally in Boston, called for unconditional amnesty for all Vietnam war resisters and a lifting of the trade embargo on South Vietnam...
Yolton, who was master of ceremonies, encouraged the group to write their Congressmen, adding that "the time is now to pressure Congressional officials into granting unconditional amnesty to all Vietnam war resisters...