Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comforts of constancy, a predictable world with the hallmarks of a Republican administration: an economic policy featuring massive unemployment and now even a threatened return to full-employment inflation; an undemocratic foreign policy that has helped bless the world with an intolerably repressive regime in Chile, prolonged killing in Vietnam, and belated, expedient moves against the white minority government in Rhodesia apparently only to save that of South Africa; an approach to civil rights highlighted by the administration's recent blocking of public school surveys vital to enforcement of civil rights legislation and Ford's inflammatory flirtation with Boston...
Representative Robert F. Drinan, of the nearby fourth Congressional district, faces a strong challenge this year from Arthur Mason, a Republican lawyer from Brookline. Drinan was an early advocate of the impeachment of Richard Nixon, as well as a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. He worked successfully for the abolition of the House Internal Security Committee, and since the end of the Vietnam and Nixon eras, Drinan has turned his attention to solving the local problems of high unemployment. Mason, although not as far to the right as many Republicans, advocates a standard Republican solution to unemployment--investment...
...efforts reach a culmination with the 1972 Republican National Convention. It is an emotional moment. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War, having converged from all over the country, assemble around the convention hall. Most are shut out, but somehow Kovic manages to enter. Enraged, near tears, he protests furiously, crying out at the awkward and indifferent Nixon delegates. "Look at me, look at your war!" The television cameras catch sight of him, Roger Mudd of CBS approaches, and for two minutes of national television all the pent up shame and rage and grief gushes...
...served two tours of duty in Vietnam! I gave America my all and the leaders of this government threw me and the others away to rot in their V.A. hospitals. What's happening in Vietnam is a crime against humanity, and I just want the American people to know that we have come all the way across this country to let the American people themselves see the men who fought their war and come to oppose it. If you can't believe the veteran who fought the war and was wounded in the war, who can you believe...
MOST OF THE TROOPS who fought in Vietnam were like Ron Kovic, young, working class men who were either unable to obtain an exemption or, more likely, thought it an honorable or decent thing to fight willingly. The moral choice that more educated and wealthy individuals faced was whether or not to resist induction. For the most part, they did not go. Thus those who would be most prone to write of their war experiences never saw Vietnam: theirs is a literature of protest. A great silence lies over the fighting man's tour in Vietnam. It is not that...