Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Bishop wrote the statement, which read in part: On our graduation day, we declare our support for those who will oppose the draft as one means of trying to end the war in Vietnam...
After Commencement '68, many Harvard seniors will lose their 2-S student draft deferements, and the war in Vietnam will scatter them across the nation and the world. Fifty years ago, Commencement had just the opposite effect, serving as the first reunion for the Class of 1918--which had already been scattered by the First World...
Part of the normalcy which the country returns to is the prospect of a Humphrey-Nixon presidential race, a contest between experienced and conventional apostles of order--tepid progressives on racial problems, unimaginative hawks on the Vietnam...
...over-shadowed election eve, Kennedy was by turns witty, self-depracating, and bitterly vociferous against the Vietnam war and urban violence in TV interviews. Throughout the evening, he seemed unable to suppress a broad, smile...
Kennedy soon became the leading political opponent of the Vietnam war, first speaking out against the growing militarization of the U.S. effort in mid-1965. Later, he defied the public opinion anlysts and critics of his mixed record on civil liberties by staunchly defending Americans who sent material aid to the North Vietnamese...