Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the story is building towards its ending--the gap between American and Vietnamese experiences of the Vietnam war, and the American antiwar movement's failure to bridge the gap, seem clearer than ever before. Congress may flatly refuse President Ford the unqualified authority and unlimited funds that it awarded his predecessors and that he needs to continue the war. But Congress's new willingness to refuse--if it doesn't crumble under pressure, as several key representatives already have--will depend less on leftists' and liberals' imagination of mechanized warfare than on liberals' and conservatives' unwillingness so he bothered...
...towns as Ban Me Thuot. Even if this had not been so. Rockefeller's stoicism before the refugees' supposedly impending deaths bespoke no sudden access of compassion for the Vietnamese people. But it was still as close as any vice-president had come to accepting American non-intervention in Vietnam since Vice-president Nixon argued for dropping some nuclear bombs to help the French...
...continuing to speak of a North Vietnamese-caused bloodbath, prepared to accept the end of the American-caused bloodbath he had consistently supported, moderately dovish liberals like The New York Times or the self-styled presidential contender Morris Udall insisted that any attempt by President Ford to make the Vietnam war a political issue was unwise, immoral, and doomed to failure. More principled opponents of the war--Times columnist Anthony Lewis, for example--joined in insisting that the United States should concentrate not on attaching blame for past mistakes in Vietnam, but on administering future, non-political aid. In Congress...
...give it much thought, but when Vietnam veterans returned home, people didn't go out of their way to greet them. Unless they were POWs, there were no brass bands or ticker tape parades, and the soldiers didn't march in platoons before cheering crowds as in World War II news clips. Such pageantry would have seemed ludicrous in light of the bitterness the war created. But even if they weren't hailed as conquering heroes, the vets could have received some acknowledgment and practical help for their sacrifice, especially when it inflicted such brutal psychological wounds. Instead, trickling back...
...Bicentennial celebration leads us to remember the events of April, 1775, it is important that we do not forget more recent Aprils. In April 1965 President Johnson stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam, and the following April the U.S. used B-52 bombers for the first time to wreak massive and arbitrary destruction on the North. And only five years ago in April, 1970 President Nixon initiated the U.S. incursion into Cambodia. This April, too, each week brings fresh evidence--trivial or crucial, comic or tragic--of the continuing strength the most shameful strands in American history...