Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton met in the morning with congressional leaders, who engaged him in spirited but mostly constructive debate. The most common complaint was that the U.S. had no vital interests in Somalia; Clinton replied, in an odd echo of the kind of arguments he might surely have rejected as a Vietnam War protester, that the vital interest at stake was the credibility of American power: the U.S. could not just cut and run. Leaving the meeting, some lawmakers gave reporters the idea that Clinton would delay his projected speech to the nation -- which prompted the White House to hurry...
...October 1963, John F. Kennedy had to decide what to do about the war in Vietnam and, most urgently, whether to back a military coup in Saigon. Kennedy was, writes Richard Reeves, "quietly desperate about the contradictions and misinformation swirling around him. Perhaps half of what he was being told was wrong, but he did not know which half." As he had done before, he dispatched personal envoys -- this time Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor -- to size up the situation...
Their mission failed to clarify the President's thinking. "He's totally out to sea about what to do in Vietnam," said Kennedy's journalist friend Charles Bartlett. Even worse, Kennedy did not seem to know how to formulate a consistent policy on Southeast Asia. His approach was, Reeves writes, often "careless and dangerously disorganized...
Yarrow discussed his work in the the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war protests and the Middle East peace process...
Perkins is one of 19 researchers compiling a series of articles on Vietnam's current economic transition...