Word: vietnam
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...integrity candidate. John McCain earned that title from principled (and appealingly quixotic) stands in the Senate on tobacco and campaign finance reform. And as TIME congressional correspondent James Carney puts it, "he's got a story to tell" -- his heroic five years as a POW in Vietnam. "The Clinton scandal has the public more cynical than ever about politicians," says Carney. "And there's no one in Washington who doesn't respect McCain's character...
...Number of days between the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the start of the Nixon impeachment inquiry...
...ought to be enough that Hanks is a solid, supple actor who not only takes ornery subjects (AIDS, Vietnam, the U.S. space program) and turns them into hits (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13), but also gives almost all his movies a moral center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken...
...were affected by the Vietnam War, assassinations, student movements, so there were external factors that certainly affected local politics," he says...
...nature of advocacy has been evolving in Cambridge over the past 30 years. The issues are changing, and you don't have great unifying issues like Vietnam or Civil Rights," he says...