Word: vietnam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...didn't. Too young for World War II and too old for Vietnam, McArthur was lucky. In fact, luck--in the sense of being in the right place at the right time--has played a defining role in the life of John McArthur...
Both said they found no evidence to support Mansfield's link between Black student enrollment and higher marks for students, and Rudenstine linked grade inflation to the general atmosphere of the University in the turbulent Vietnam era and the competitive years thereafter...
...lesson first taught to Powell in the jungles of Vietnam in the 1960s, when the results of poor military planning were evident...
...When he was over in Vietnam, his wife and family stayed behind at home in Alabama and were treated miserably, as was common at the time," Weinberger says. "He never let it affect what he was doing or how he felt about America...
...anything, says Weinberger, Powell is consumed with a desire to do his job in the best way he can--a desire which led him from the fields of Vietnam to the Office of Management and Budget in 1972, where he served for a year as a White House fellow, After returning to active military service, he went back and forth between active military duty and government policymaking positions until 1989, when he succeeded Admiral William J. Crowe as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...