Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's decision to send emergency aid to Zaire cannot help but bring back memories of American involvement in Vietnam, where a decision to support a corrupt regime finally alienated the entire population from the United States. The American public should scrutinize American involvement in Zaire carefully before permitting Vance to shore up Mobutu's regime. And the much heralded shift in American policy in Africa should be scrutinized equally carefully, because for all Carter's rhetoric about human rights, at the moment his foreign policy seems based on premises that are dangerously parallel to those that led previous administrations...
...committee voiced specific objections to Kissinger's actions in dealing with Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile as well as his possible role in domestic wiretapping...
Connally noted that there had been periods of isolationism after both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietnam wars. The Russian launching of Sputnik broke the isolationism of the '50s, he added, beginning a successful American struggle for technological superiority...
...that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were so insolent, the worst of the bunch. At least you have to respect the boys a little since they have something riding on this. The thing is Vietnam for many of them, and if they get chucked out for this their chances of being sent there are far greater. But if the girls get heaved, they'll just go off to secretarial school...
Although she is renowned for her writing on military affairs, Tuchman said that she has no wish to write about the Vietnam War. "I would prefer to let a gap of 25 years develop before writing about," she said...