Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide committee of college newspaper editors and class presidents called this week for a one day "moratorium on 'business as usual'" at American universities this fall to protest the continuation of the war in Vietnam...
...Class of 1969 is a famous class because it feels passionately about things, wants to rid the world of evil, etc. We hate the famous War in Vietnam, and we take various kinds of dope, and most of all we are full of energy and idealism. Yes. Of course, at times our zeal is misdirected (as, alas, was Hitler's). At times, we want things too fast, too much (this being a product of our childhood, of course, since our parents grew up in the depression, then made it, then wanted to give us all the advantages, etc.) But, alas...
...year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing of North Vietnam). People worked for McCarthy, who lost by only a little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter, because...
McGeorge Bundy, formed dean of the Faculty and more recent supporter of American Vietnam policies, reversed his earlier tough stand. In a speech at DePauw University, Bundy said that the United States should immediately stop the bombing and begin a unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam...
Allen then went into a long harangue explaining the SDS demands. He said that "ROTC must be smashed" because "it supports imperialist exploitation in Watts... and in Vietnam" and that the University's construction projects evicted people from their homes...