Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Vice-President cited two factors contributing to McCarthy's ability to enlist the support of college students. "Firstly," he said, "there's the fact that there is great disillusionment among young people over Vietnam, and, of course, McCarthy tells them what they want to hear...
...story comes in spurts, with snatches of documentaries thrown in at random. Robert (Yves Montand), the hero, spends most of his time wandering around the world making television documentaries. Admittedly, Robert is not a bad television documentary producer, but the horrors of Vietnam are not relevant to the love story that should be the core of the film. One can only assume that these sequences are thrown in as Contrast, but the contrast is too great to have any meaning to the audience. Half the time you are watching a French Flick, and the other half you are watching...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S curious remark that, "the New Hampshire primary is one that anyone can enter and everyone can win," may yet prove one of the most astute comments on that event. Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the magical 42 per cent of the vote Senator McCarthy commandeered turned the 1968 campaign into "an entirely new ball game" in a number of ways. The primary, regarded as a sharp rebuke to the President himself and/or his Vietnam policy, may actually be an ironic stroke of fortune in an otherwise steadily growing list of political nightmares for the man from...
...almost exclusively to the issue of the war. With his "victory" in New Hampshire, and his insistence that he now has his eyes on the White House, the Senator must comment more extensively on domestic problems, and indeed, outline more specific proposals for getting the United States out of Vietnam. The recent departure of his two chief press aides, complaining that McCarthy was not addressing all the issues, along with the impending defection of advisor-speechwriter Richard Goodwin hint at the beginning of the breakdown of that rare but genial coalition of fairly radical anti-war students, ADA liberals...
...Army, the Navy, and the Merchant Marines have refused to participate in "Choice '68"--a nationwide poll of college students on Vietnam and the Presidency...