Word: vietnamization
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...just students” melts away. Our challenge, sadly, is not unique—many classes of Harvard graduates have faced the spectre of mass killings. It is indeed ironic that in his Baccalaureate Address in the Memorial Church on Tuesday, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited the Vietnam War as an example of what can happen “when people fail to think things through.” In his watershed book The Best and the Brightest, David L. Halberstam ’55 showed that it was precisely a group of Harvard affiliates who were the cause...
Though he tended to stay out of the political fray on campus, Ford spoke out against the Vietnam war in a Commencement speech in 1967, and was one of several top American educators to pay a visit to President Johnson that year to express concern for the repercussions of the war on foreign policy, the nation and higher education...
...stood up and I said...‘If you don’t stop pushing us around and bullying us like this I’m going to take my clothes off and recite the names of the Vietnam War dead,’” he said, describing the moment that helped him secure the class’ vote to speak at graduation...
Chase—author of a bestselling cookbook—recalls seeking solace from the Vietnam vet and store owner, but Kerry merely shrugged his shoulders and said, “Oh, that’s nothing compared to what I saw in Vietnam...
...time I started college in 1975 the war in [Vietnam] had ended and we’d missed the sit-ins of the war years, but there was still a substantial amount of political activism on campus,” she writes in an e-mail. “I remember many rallies in the Yard protesting apartheid and urging Harvard to divest its holdings in South Africa...