Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Katangans with arms. What then is wrong with giving military aid to Zaire? Zaire, while not a perfect democracy, is miles ahead of Angola. Why doesn't The Crimson comment on the 10,000 Cuban troops remaining in Angola? We agree that America should not forget the lessons of Vietnam. But there is a big difference between sending arms and sending troops. Therefore we applaud the recent action of the Carter Administration...
...most effective and dramatic of the poems he read yesterday dealt with the Vietnam war and the protest movement it spawned. In sparse, simple lines he vividly recalled the atmosphere of Chicago's Grant Park during the 1968 Democratic convention...
Another poem commented on the unpopularity of America's involvement in Southeast Asia by invoking the image of Kilroy, a fictitious mascot of American forces whose name appeared as scrawled graffitti throughout Europe and Korea but who became conspicuous by his absence from Vietnam. "Kilroy is absent without leave from Vietnam," McCarthy read, and the impact of the poem's message moved the audience to applause...
McCarthy has yet to write stirring verse, similar to that inspired by Vietnam, about the 1976 campaign, and he said he doubts that he will. Events that spur the poet occur infrequently in one's lifetime, and in the case of Vietnam, McCarthy surely must see this failing of history as a blessing...
...McCarthy campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination to offer voters an alternative to the Johnson administration's prosecution of the Vietnam war, but lost to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), Johnson's vice president. He ran briefly in Democratic primaries in 1972, and as an Independent candidate in the 1976 presidential race, in which he received over a million votes...