Word: vietnamize
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...record helps him across the board. He knows a Massachusetts liberal has to show he'll be strong on national defense. He loves contrasting his experience with aircraft carriers to Bush's. One aide dates his comeback to when the campaign started airing the ad of testimony from another Vietnam crewmate named Del Sandusky. In speeches, the battles Kerry discusses most are those he fought as part of the antiwar movement when he got back. That bit is code for saying, I took on a Republican President when I was 25; I can do it again...
...revelation, he adamantly refused to talk about himself, his family, his faith journey, his heartwarming moments as a doctor. Some of this was camouflage: the tribune of the common man who grew up on Park Avenue and went to prep school. During one debate, Dean talked about how, when Vietnam started, he was at college in New Haven, Conn., the accepted Wasp way of avoiding saying that he went to Yale--as did John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and George W. Bush. But there was also a principle involved: the idea was to keep people focused on what he would...
Punishment may seem an ill-fitting strategy for a genial fellow who was a surfer dude as well as a jock in his California teens. But Fox's German-American mom and Vietnam-vet stepdad taught him discipline and focus, which he needed as he took 15 college and pro coaching jobs in 25 years. (His wife Robin spent their honeymoon in the stands as Fox coached in the U.S. Football League.) So he knew hunger when he came to Carolina. "Losing 15 games in a row, everybody had scars. They were ashamed and embarrassed, and willing to do anything...
Silent Majority 1968 Conservatives who rejected '60s radicalism but had little visibility until Richard Nixon gave them a name--and mobilized them by promising national unity and victory in Vietnam...
...month or so ago, when John Kerry was dead, the Atlantic Monthly ran a stunning excerpt from historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Kerry's military service in Vietnam--stunning not so much for the events depicted but for the excerpts from Kerry's letters and diaries, which were as moving, candid and powerful as the best Vietnam War writing. Skeptics will say that Kerry, who seems to have had an exaggerated sense of destiny since the sandbox, was writing for posterity even then. Perhaps, but the words reveal a young lieutenant of uncommon grace and intelligence...