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...fathers and sons who argued the Viet Nam War over the kitchen table, the scene was thoroughly familiar. The stern elder, graying hair neatly cropped and parted, lectures on the global responsibilities of a world power. The skeptical younger man, thick hair curling over ears, demands to know why American boys must be sent off to die in vain. Each loses his temper and falls to impugning the integrity of the other...
...table in this scene, however, was not in a kitchen but in the rotunda of Columbia University's Low Library in New York City. The older generation was played by Walter Mondale, the younger (nine years younger, anyway) by Gary Hart. The issue was not Viet Nam but its lessons and how they should be applied today in Central America and the Persian Gulf. The family was the Democratic Party, once again bitterly divided over the limits of intervention...
Hart's formative experience was the Viet Nam War; as George McGovern's 1972 campaign manager, Hart was a prominent opponent of America's military involvement in Southeast Asia. The real enemy, says Hart, is not Communism but "poverty, hunger and disease." In most internal disputes in foreign countries, he contends, the U.S. not only backs the wrong side-"repression and corruption and privilege"-but "inevitably the losing side." Hart charges that Mondale was slow to turn against the Viet Nam War and has yet to learn its lessons. A leader, said Hart, must know "not only...
...press. Later, as Richard Nixon's chief of staff when the Watergate scandal was approaching its climax, Haig resisted efforts by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to obtain Oval Office tapes that ultimately discredited Nixon. Critics also faulted Haig for having helped Nixon and Kissinger conduct the war in Viet Nam, including the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. Yet another cloud over his nomination was the persistent though contested allegation that the Nixon Administration ordered the CIA to organize the 1973 military coup
...knowledge, never before my confirmation had there been hearings so openly conducted on ideological grounds rather than merely political ones. For some men there is a high emotive content in terms that apply to me: soldier, Republican, conservative, patriot. Add to that tinder the burning issues of Watergate, Viet Nam, Cambodia, wiretaps, the CIA, Chile, and you have the makings of a pretty hot time...