Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became interested in government during his youth in Montana, and he came to Harvard to study politics during the Vietnam War era. He returned to Montana and became mayor of Missoula...
...illustrate the mutual grip of terror, Robert McNamara explains deterrence and seems amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record to send to Hanoi, turn jovial and break out the vodka...
...footage and heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real tribute to the filmmakers is that amid the thrills, they provide some good understanding of these conflicts and the superpowers' role in them...
...know what he's turning this country into?" said one of the workers, a tattooed Vietnam vet, about the President's public self-flagellations. "An open meeting of sexaholics anonymous. He isn't even a man anymore. The guy's been ruined by chicks...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 put this issue in historical perspective. "The Core grew out of the General Education program, which was a great achievement of postwar optimism," he wrote me in an e-mail. "But [d]uring and after Vietnam," he continued, "the sense that the state was responsible for preserving important values and the College had a role in that too was shattered...