Word: vietnam
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...recently publicized series of letters written by Vice President Al Gore '69 during the spring of 1966 express his turmoil over America's involvement in the Vietnam...
...letters to his future wife Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson on Harvard stationery, Gore described his mixed feelings about Vietnam--his admiration for a classmate who left school to enlist, and the presidential candidate's frustration with the war in general...
...both night owls, would stay up late after Ernestine had retired at 10 p.m. Bradley would read as St. Onge did her homework, and sometimes she would ask him questions. "He'd give these elaborate, wonderful 'I-was-there' kind of answers," she recalls. Once, when she was studying Vietnam, he brought out textiles from there, which she used to help illustrate her report...
...with the great environmentalist writers of this century--Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Doug Peacock and many more like them--who feel compelled to tell us about their lives to an extent that often becomes deadening. Peacock has spent the years since his return from a deeply traumatic stint in Vietnam photographing and following brown bears from unimaginably unsafe distances: what lurks behind Peacock's lengthy exposition of his Grizzly Years, though, is not the implication that his set of unusual experiences are unique but that somehow they partake of the universally shared history of the relationship between man and Nature...
...This time yesterday Bradley wasn?t leading in New Hampshire, dead even in New York, and tallying up as the candidate with the bigger coffers. Besides moving his HQ to Nashville, Gore has started talking about his post-Vietnam "disillusionment" with government, and using flowery Bradley-style imagery to illustrate his themes. Once, Bradley was a quixotic outsider to be ignored; now he?s the man to beat. "For a long time this campaign rightfully ?- and then wrongfully ?- thought the right strategy was to engage Bush," one Gore aide told the New York Times. "Now we have to acknowledge reality...