Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alumni reported that their political leanings were overwhelmingly Democratic, leading them to support Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and again this year. While most vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, '71 graduates, especially men, tended to agree with the U.S. position in the Persian Gulf War and in Bosnia...
...still believed in eighth grade civics when I came to Harvard. And then you had all the stuff with Vietnam. This message of exploitation, and the economic realities, and how so much boiled down to class," he said. "I learned how much hatred there was out there, how much discrimination...
...added that the hatred he saw during Vietnam protests prepared him for the challenges he would face as a gay man in today's world...
...still think of Vietnam as one of the defining political events of my life," says Johnson, a former T.V. news producer about to launch a second career. "Being at Harvard during those years and feeling that the institution had contributed so many strategists to the war gave it an immediacy I might not have felt in a more detached campus. I was deeply angry then; I find those wells of anger still tappable in discussions...
...With the Vietnam War and the protests of the administration, sports on campus were frowned upon. You were wearing a scarlet letter if you were a jock," Farneti says. "Harvard was not the place at that time that was overly impressed with a pro team playing in its stadium...