Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While McChristian testified, he did not look at his former boss, who sat 20 feet away. Westmoreland, the plaintiff in a $120 million libel suit against CBS News, has charged that a 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, falsely accused him of "conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead President Lyndon Johnson about the success of the war of attrition against Communist insurgents. CBS contends that the documentary was true and that much of the program's evidence came from Westmoreland's colleagues...
Keene first became interested in politics at the University of Wisconsin, where she demonstrated against the war in Vietnam. "It was very easy to get caught up to the politics of the era," she says...
Crimson: In your writings on the Vietnam war it seemed that you were writing about the media that presented the war rather than the war itself...
...They did it in Vietnam, so there no reason they can't do it in Guatemala...
...record of Harvard students on connecting their politics to their real lives is not consistently good. Graduates of the late 1960s, who so vociferously protested the war in Vietnam, now look back with shame to their decision to evade the draft and their effective decision to leave the burden of that war on the poor of this country. In a poignant article he wrote for The Washington Monthly in 1975, the journalist James Fallows, a member of the Harvard Class of 1970, recalled that rationalizations he and his classmates used for their action, most notably the argument that...