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Lyndon Johnson gloried in military strength, then despaired of it when it failed vainly in Viet Nam. He bullied the world, but before he left office, he vainly planned a disarmament summit with the Soviets. Ironically, it was Richard Nixon, the the of the mailed fist, who finally got to the negotiating table in the Kremlin...
...main reason for the increase is changes in the traditional pattern of immigration. Revision of the federal immigration law in 1965 allowed people from Third World countries, such as Mexico and the Philippines, where leprosy is endemic, to enter the U.S. in increased numbers. Refugees from Viet Nam and Cuba have helped create sizable pockets of the disease in California (1,038 reported cases), Hawaii (759), Texas (509), New York (401) and Florida (115). Though health authorities routinely screen immigrants and refugees, leprosy often escapes notice. Explains Dr. Thomas Rea, who treats 320 leprosy patients in Los Angeles...
Engineering has long been in a boom-and-bust cycle. In the late 1950s, after the first Sputnik was launched, it was a hot field. Then in the early 1970s, with the winding down of the Project Apollo space program and the Viet Nam War, and the cancellation of projects to build an American supersonic commercial airplane, engineers had a tough time finding work. Now glamorous new computer technologies as well as advances in other fields of applied science have made the profession popular once again...
Some have argued that the unlikely success of such a song demonstrates that the war in Viet Nam is now, securely, a safe issue. But Still in Saigon does not play it safe in the writing or in Daniels' slightly rowdy, defiant delivery. This is a war memorial of present and continued agony, about flashbacks that never stop and bad dreams that do not end with daylight: "Every summer when it rains/ I smell the jungle/ I hear the planes/ I can't tell no one/ I feel ashamed/ Afraid some day/ I'll go insane...
...history record that in 1967, at the height of the Viet Nam War, President Lyndon Johnson was visited several times in the White House by God. As Ronnie Dugger reports in this scrupulous, generally disapproving account of the 36th President's rise to power, the Creator would appear around 2 or 3 a.m. when Johnson received his daily reports from the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Dugger does not disclose what the Commander in Chief was told by his Commander in Chief, but he does recount that on one occasion Johnson "prayed on his knees for an hour...