Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Known as a record setter--first blind person to dislocate his shoulder playing tackle football, etc.--Krents says he "might be the first American soldier captured in Vietnam while looking for the latrine...
...announcement of the grant and funding of the center comes at a time when medical schools are expecting large reductions in federal grants because of the Vietnam...
...this date, the Vietnam war, the rise in urban violence, and Lyndon Johnson's idiosyncratic conduct as President appear to have split the party into three new wings...
...last day of last month, the night before April Fool's Day, the President of the United States said that he had just about had enough. He said that he would not run for President again and he said that he would try to make peace in Vietnam. Whatever pushed him to that decision--the Vietcong or the anti-war people or a bad heart--it was over. And in Cambridge they snake-danced in the streets...
...stock market loves it and Averell Harriman is whispering and they are trying to find somewhere to talk and Irving Howe is happy, the war is not over--it is not anywhere near over. It is over in the hearts of our countrymen but not over in Vietnam. It will surely go on for at least two more years, and the situation at home will be much the same as it is over there: no one will want to take a chance on getting wounded or killed on the day before the armistice...