Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard in 1965, Gore couldn't be completely insular. It was difficult for any student to escape the daily barrage of national and international affairs. The war in Vietnam had just begun to receive intense, critical coverage in the national media...
...after day, The Crimson printed Associated Press stories on troop deployments. Cambridge and Boston experienced racial and ethnic unrest. Not a week went without news of a new Vietnam protest in Cambridge or Boston by student groups...
Life seemed idyllic, perhaps, but, by 1969, no one on campus was isolated from the contentious Vietnam protests...
Openly, Gore didn't talk much about Vietnam, preferring to debate over intellectual issues. "I don't remember too much," Somerby says. "I think freshman year was a pretty non-political year...
Gore graduated from Harvard and served two years as an Army journalist in Vietnam. Upon his return to the United States, he attended the Divinity School for a while, and then was hired as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean...