Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest disappointment" of the many dignitaries he has met. "He was a superb majority leader and was able to get more progressive legislation adopted than [Franklin D.] Roosevelt, but in the end he didn't have what it took to resolve the greatest issue of his time, the Vietnam War," he says...
...Kerry has strong liberal credentials, and is best known as a Vietnam War hero who led the anti-war movement upon his return, Shannon, a protege of House speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Jr. (D-Cambridge), also has a strong liberal record in congress--he received a 96 percent liberal rating form the National Journal...
...always done." They formed a line of march and stepped out with an unexpected precision and esprit. A tall veteran played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. As they marched along, other veterans left the sidewalks and joined them. Eventually, there were about 300, most of them members of the Vietnam Veterans of America. They were dressed in something like the raggedy irregular's garb they had worn in the field, festooned with badges and other ornaments, some wearing beards and mustaches. It was an affecting spectacle, but it irritated some other Viet Nam veterans who watched from the sidelines...
...Riesman noted, that atmosphere disintegrated. After the period of calm that swept the country in the late '50s and early '60s, the Vietnam War, the rise of the counterculture and radical student activism splintered campuses around the country into angry factions...
...government or espoused ideas construed as conservative, faced student harassment. Heckling crowds disrupted the classes of, and sometimes followed around the campus, George D. Markham Professor of Government Edward C. Banfield, who had criticized Great Society welfare programs in the ghettoes; Huntington, who had advised the government on Vietnam; and particularly Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, Herrnstein had written that genetic factors contributed to intelligence more than environment, and although he never mentioned race in his articles, he was branded a racist by campus groups...