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...many Democrats that year opposed the war in Viet Nam so strongly that incumbent Lyndon Johnson chose not to seek reelection, and although the convention dutifully picked Johnson's Vice President, Humphrey lost the election at least partly because of the discontent that the convention left behind...
...thought that the future under Reagan might be a kind of doubling back to the simpler past of the '50s: not the most ennobling American era, they admit, but not such a bad one either. Worse things have happened, such as 20 years of assassinations, riots, Viet Nam and Watergate, OPEC's extortions and the dollar's humiliation. Après Ike, le déluge. Eisenhower's '50s begin to seem an almost golden time...
...General's reputation in recent years has been revised and rehabilitated, sometimes rather extravagantly. In the Viet Nam era, liberals like I.F. Stone and Murray Kempton found brilliance in Eisenhower previously undetected by intellectuals; he had resisted the best efforts of his advisers to get him to help the French in Indochina in the weeks before Dien Bien Phu. Despite CIA adventuring around the world, despite the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Iran, despite that sunbathing Marine exercise on the Lebanese beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept...
...receive the first wave of a tide of 4 million initial registrants-all male citizens and resident aliens born in 1960 and 1961-the signup foes won what could prove to be a short-lived victory in the courts. Ruling on an antidraft suit originally brought by four anti-Viet Nam youths in 1971, two years before induction was ended, a panel of three federal judges in Philadelphia "permanently enjoined" the Government from requiring anyone to register with Selective Service...
Interests of the two Communist allies do coincide, at least for the moment. Hanoi's defenses, as well as its offensive capabilities, depend upon continuing supplies from the U.S.S.R. and the assistance of an estimated 6,000 Soviet advisers based in Viet Nam. In exchange, Soviet reconnaissance planes land at Vietnamese airports and Soviet naval ships have refueling rights at U.S.-built ports at Danang and Cam Ranh Bay. For Hanoi, Soviet assistance is the key to maintaining its present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence...