Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam...
...American liberalism has perverted itself," she went on. "The liberal coalition brought on the war in Vietnam. Liberals say that violence has brought about the crisis in our country. It is, instead, the failure of liberalism that has driven demonstrators and rebels into the streets...
...stalemate in the popular vote would leave whichever-President without the national support he needs to carry on a war as adventuresome as the war in Vietnam. The reasons for not being at war are always there in the public's subconscious; so if left to its own inertia, popular opinion would be constantly carrying us towards peace. But the new President would have to show us why we would be killing ourselves and would have to prove we want to continue doing so. Even a Richard Nixon, who managed to win only in the House, would feel himself unable...
...which seems to suggest what underlay the general sluggishness Friday night: the political sands have shifted, the summer's enthusiasm has yielded to the fall's agony, and a few months' time has almost made irrelevant the central issue--the Vietnam war--which provoked the new politics in the first place...
...problem stems back to 1965, Eckstein said, when the economic stability achieved under President Johnson fell prey to the financial burdens of the Vietnam war. The result was the fourth period of inflation since World...