Word: vietnam
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...anger, he was one of the most hated figures of his time, and yet he was also the only man in U.S. history ever to be elected twice as Vice President and twice as President. In the White House, he achieved many major goals: the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, restored relations with China, the first major arms agreement with the Soviet Union and much more. But he will always be remembered, as he was at his death last week at 81, as the chief perpetrator -- and chief victim -- of the Watergate scandal, the only President ever to resign in disgrace...
...learned how to make effective use of television: not in speeches or press conferences but answering questions from "typical voters" and then carefully editing the results. If that was artificial, so in a way was the whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam and "law and order" at home. In a year...
...tiny group that gathered yesterday just a few hours before Nixon's funeral in Yorba Linda, Calif., provided only a whisper of what it was like during his administration, when hundreds of thousands protested the Vietnam...
...promise of "peace with honor" in 1968, but during his first term as president, he only intensified the Vietnam War. and as Nixon announced the end of the war in 1973, garnering support for his peacemaking efforts, he approved a campaign of secret bombings in Cambodia--expanding the war to another country just as peace, with or without honor, was at hand. Nixon's utter refusal to end these secret horrors of Vietnam cost hundreds of American and Vietnamese lives. These were not hellish, unavoidable consequences of war; they were illegal, immoral activities hidden from public view, the very acts...
This reaction is natural, for Watergate changed the nation's attitude toward its government. Together with the Vietnam War--which Nixon, ironically, ended--Watergate stole the innocence of a once-trusting electorate. The presidency, once idolized, was humanized; the nation's chief executive became fallible, its voters, cynics. Before Watergate, Americans believed before we doubted; now we doubt until we are given reason to believe...