Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this image of a saint-like JFK was soon to be overturned. With the winds of Vietnam, Watergate, and the CIA revelations, so blew historical change and the second wave of Kennedy historiography. Something had gone drastically wrong with America in the post-Kennedy era. Historians searched frantically for the origins of disaster, and in so doing came to revise their opinions of Kennedy...
Almost overnight it was decided that he had not really been a "liberal" after all. In foreign policy, some of his more reactionary impulses were remembered: The Bay of Pigs, expanded involvement in Vietnam, the possibility of assassinating Castro. Even the Missile Crisis was reconsidered, and deemed an overreaction on Kennedy's part. In domestic affairs, it was remembered that blacks had gained little from him in terms of solid economic improvement while the profits for big business had continued to increase. His liberal health and education bills were mangled by the Congress...
Normalization should come as part of a larger initiative throughout Asia; any current attempts by the State Department to pursue coherent Asian policies fail in face of the depressing fact that the U.S. lacks regular relations with both Vietnam and her most important and presently unfriendly neighbor, China...
...normalization should soon come. Fairy tales aside, the U.S. owes Vietnam much more than diplomatic relations. That should be the least it offers to a land it almost obliterated. And America, too, needs normalization beyond the practical, quantifiable gains of trade, new sources of oil, and regional stability. It is long past time that the U.S. learned to pursue its interests with legitimate methods. The U.S. should recognize Vietnam before thousands more "familiarize" themselves on some other continent in some other misbeggotten...
Chances are that Kerry, anxious to run the show officially at the courthouse on Thorndike St., will not be named successor because of his relative inexperience (the former head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War is only two years out of law school). If the opportunity does arise, you can be sure that Scott Harshbarger will be considered. Ah, sweet irony of democracy...