Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 in 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...
...poll of ROTC students at Harvard showed that one per cent favored quick "escalation for victory" in Vietnam, while 79 per cent said they would like to see immediate U.S withdrawal or some policy more dovish than current American policy...
Though he cautioned that "I do not see the university as a kind of mirror image of society or as a test place for social change and improvement," McCarthy went on to say that three issues--the war in Vietnam, racial discrimination, and demands for participation in government--were having reverberations within the universities...
Taking the war in Vietnam as an example of outside issues impinging on the university, McCarthy commented, "This kind of outside force cannot in any way be excluded from the considerations of the colleges." Students concerned about these issues were trying to find "how to become an influence upon society," he said, adding that "no one should be surprised" if they chose on-campus targets such as ROTC and business recruiting...