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...dean of Yale Law School, who served under four Presidents, including Ronald Reagan; in Alexandria, Va. As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, he was part of a group of influential Democrats deeply affected by World War II who strongly defended U.S. involvement in Vietnam...
Institute of Politics Director Daniel R. Glickman calls Kerry an “exceptional” candidate whose outstanding military career in Vietnam is another asset other presidential candidates may lack...
...particularly the administration’s inability to give the war a clear definition or direction. The cabinet conceptualizes the war only in terms of what it is not: not the Clinton administration’s response to terrorism, not the Soviets’ disastrous foray into Afghanistan, not Vietnam. This may explain why the cabinet’s strategies have been largely unsuccessful, from the anticlimactic air campaign to, most egregiously, the failure to locate bin Laden...
Herbert also had a lengthy military career and served in four wars: World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf...
...will likely resurface in the committee’s final report. Kissinger is a man who operates under the principle that the ends justify the means. Although he achieved what other diplomats could not in opening China in 1972 and negotiating the end to both the Yom Kippur and Vietnam wars, his devotion to realpolitik in the 1960s and ’70s was unparalleled and remains significant today. After all, more than a diplomat, Kissinger is an idea, evoking images of old-fashioned espionage and its effectiveness. He has previously shown great willingness to implement practices that other diplomats...