Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes...
...anti-ROTC movement at Harvard is fundamentally irrational in any case because the existence of the ROTC has no direct bearing on American policy in Vietnam or elsewhere. This movement has no intellectual or moral respectability except in a context of genuine pacifism, which is a philosophy which few student demonstrators profess and which many of them betray by their actions. The anti-ROTC movement is mainly an expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex...
...would come as a surprise, by the way, to many of those simplistic souls who think that the U.S. should just "get out of Vietnam" to learn how much support there is in Asia for the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Educated people in Asia generally want their societies to evolve as open, pluralistic, constitutional democracies. Most Asian countries have a long way to go to achieve these goals, but giving way to step in the wrong direction. Malaysia, which has a continuing problem with Communist guerillas on a small scale, is now having its national parliamentary election campaign. In this...
...life I have felt the pride the pride of an alumnus, proud that a few Harvard students finally had the courage to show their fellows that the tweed of Harvard administrators and history professors, the blues of racist city police, the khaki fatigues of American soldiers in Vietnam, and the green eye-shades of New York Times editors, are all but the various uniforms of flunkies for the same man (or has it become an uncontrollable machine?). I sang "With the Crimson in Triumph Flashing" on the exercise yard today. James R. Wessner #17837 Federal Youth Center Ashland, Kentucky
...made it clear that while I oppose the war and favor this country leaving Vietnam, I do not think it is proper to cause the University as such to take a position of political protest against...