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Although he was not the first musician to write protest songs, as an advocate of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements, Dylan made it “cool” to write politically motivated lyrics...
...establish the integrity of our nation. Daisy Swadesh Farmington, New Mexico, U.S. TIME's cover stated, "the stakes are higher than we could ever imagine." The magazine needs to be more judicious. Anyone who has studied the American Civil War or lived through the cold war and Vietnam knows there were more polarized election seasons, when the stakes were surely higher than they are now. The casualty levels of the war on terrorism, regrettable as they are, have not approached those of other conflicts. We got through them. This has been a politically contentious time, but were we to face...
...come. There is no way to cynically “match” the Republicans on defense and then pivot to more hospitable domestic issues. Bruce Reed of the Democratic Leadership Council wrote about a “trust gap”—a legacy of Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis—that pushes fearful voters into the arms of the tougher “daddy party” Republicans. “Me too” on defending America is an invitation to defeat, and Democrats need to show how their ideas would actually...
...noted the late president’s recognition of youth contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and to the war on poverty and suggested that “he would have understood the importance of young people in ending the war in Vietnam...
After the debates, McCain amended his early public promise not to criticize his friend and fellow Vietnam veteran Kerry, noting the candidate's inconsistencies and what McCain considers an unrealistic view of the powers of diplomacy. At the campaign's request, he even made a second visit to the press cabin of Air Force One to cry foul at Kerry's mention of the Vice President's gay daughter. "He was there whenever we needed him," said a Bush staff member days before the election, grateful that the alliance had held, "and thankfully, nobody lost any limbs...