Word: vietnams
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...hear Frederic Whitehurst tell it, his goal is to serve his country. That is why he volunteered for combat in Vietnam, where he earned four bronze stars, and that is why in 1982, armed with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke, he joined the FBI. Despite appearances to the contrary, patriotism, he says, is behind the one-man crusade he has been waging against the bureau since the 1980s, charging his colleagues with following improper procedures in the FBI laboratory and with bowing to political pressure to solve cases. "America is my family," says Whitehurst, 48, "and I'm conducting...
Robinson, a native New Yorker and decorated Vietnam veteran, promises to use the Internet to keep in touch with constituents. He also says he has a detailed plan to save Medicare, including a proposal to give cash rewards for reports of fraud. But this G.O.P.-dominated district may not reward the Democratic Robinson, especially against five-term incumbent Joel Hefley...
...Vietnam hero confined to a wheelchair because of his war wounds, Cleland was Georgia's youngest Secretary of State in 1983. He declined to answer the TIME/CQ questionnaire because he considers it "so skeletal and oversimplified as to be distortive." And he has waged a campaign that avoids a complex agenda, emphasizing job security, affordable college education and improved access to health insurance as priorities...
Gilchrest's quixotic career includes heroic service in Vietnam--he received a Navy Commendation Medal--17 years teaching high school, and work as a forest ranger and barn builder. Noted for his fiscal conservatism, he has shown independence from the G.O.P. by backing the assault-weapons...
...closest friends. Your description of him was unrecognizable. "Cold"? To me and a number of other people, Mac was an intensely loyal, warm and attentive friend, caring and supportive in good times and bad. To say he "marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque...