Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some respects, the 95th is unique, and that has a great deal to do with its problems. It was elected in the psychological aftermath of the Viet Nam War and Watergate?wrenching historical episodes in which a complacent legislature failed until too late to question excesses of Executive authority. Thus Congress bristled when Carter indicated that he would decide what was best for the country and that Congress's role in accepting (or rejecting) those decisions was more a frustrating nuisance than a necessary part of democratic government...
...independence of Congress and its defiance of the President are established and growing phenomena. Perhaps Viet Nam and Watergate injured the presidency even more than we thought. Reverence for the office is diminished. Personal disdain is often open, as when Senator James Abourezk suggested during the natural gas filibuster that Carter had lied. Ever increasing staffs of experts have bolstered the self-confidence of the men on the Hill?some of whom had ample self-confidence to begin with. The aides often know as much or more about the subjects than the newcomers in the White House and can stun...
...material of public memory, the war in Viet Nam has been a bust...
Ronald Reagan almost accidentally discovered, during his bid for the G.O.P. presidential nomination last year, that the canal aroused high passions. Coming so soon after the U.S. retreat from Viet Nam, the question of giving up the waterway became inextricably entangled with the matter of American strength and pride-of patriotism v. surrender. Yet for all the opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults...
...commission for as long as two years. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "If I were a guerrilla backed by Fidel Castro or somebody, I would just love those Panamanian jungles. They are better than even the jungles of Viet Nam. An organized guerrilla effort would cost us heavily. That is why we want the Panamanians on our side from scratch under the new treaties. We need them to help' us." If the U.S. were forced to take some kind of military action to protect the canal...