Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor, there are familiar echoes--failures such as the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam, and successes such as the Cuban missile crisis...
They cite John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis and the Social Security compromise during Reagan's first term as success stories. Horror stories are more common, and include Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Carter's aborted arms control initiative in 1977 and his handling of the report of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
That change, he said, "affected Lyndon Johnson on Vietnam," made him determined not to allow the communists another Asian victory...
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.(D-Mass.) described the upcoming House decision as a "Tonkin Gulf vote," a reference to the 1964 resolution that enabled then President Johnson to introduce U.S. troops in Vietnam...
Katt is another matter. Several years ago he brought school-boyish charm to the role of an inept superhero in the short-lived television series The Greatest American Hero. In House, he plays the part of an angst-ridden Vietnam vet with the same schoolboyish charm and humor. Unfortunately, angst and schoolboy don't go well together...