Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they were negligent in not objecting much earlier to Viet Nam policy. Its chief sponsor, in fact, was J. William Fulbright, who five years ago also sponsored the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -the measure that the Johnson Administration later claimed was the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war. In part at least, last week's National Commitments resolution is the doves' belated atonement for the Tonkin measure, which received scarcely a critical glance when it passed Congress in 1964. For all the hope supporters had for it, the new resolution would not in itself prevent some...
...wrongly, Presidents on many occasions have irrevocably committed the country to foreign ventures without congressional consent. In the first two decades of the century, for example, American troops were sent repeatedly to preserve order or protect U.S. interests in Caribbean countries. In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson...
Bracero: Mexican citizen brought into the U.S. temporarily and usually in groups to add to the existing labor force at times of peak activity. The program, begun during World War II to relieve manpower shortages, was ended-over farmers' protests-in 1964. However, individuals known as "green-carders" (for the permits they hold) can work as aliens...
Pachuco: tough guy. Used of teenage Mexican-American boys in gangs. During World War II, dressed in gaudy zoot suits, they were the target of racial violence in Los Angeles and elsewhere...
Maurice Schumann, 58, Minister of Foreign-Affairs, combines impeccable Gaullist credentials with a pro-European outlook. Intense and bespectacled, Schumann is a fiery orator with an engaging personality and warm humor. During World War II, he was the radio voice of Free France in London and De Gaulle's chief public relations man. He served as a Deputy Foreign Minister from 1951 to 1954, and was a disciple of postwar Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, one of the pioneers of European economic integration. Maurice Schumann broke with De Gaulle in 1962, after the general rejected European political unity, but returned...