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- 141: Richard Nixon and the Notion of Presidential Power
- ... not essential to national security. Nixon attempts to validate his argument by stating that the nation was torn apart during his term of office by the tumultuous times of the Vietnam War era. He attempts to compare the Civil War, the most difficult time in the history of this country, to the social protests and challenges of the Vietnam era. The differences are immense. Lincoln witnessed the very nation that he governed dissolve before him. He witnessed the issue of slavery eat away at the moral fabric of this nation as it shouldered the economy of the South and he questioned the future of this nation. Richard Nixon, however, faced no such threats. He encountered opposition to the Vietnam War and to the American government shortly after becoming President and he attempts to convince us that the nation was ideologically “torn apart”. Also, Nixon's attempt to portray ...
- 142: Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary
- ... targets, the Pentagon and Air Force is. Jake gathers information from maps and a friend in the navigation department to learn about a target he wants to go after: The Vietnam Communist Party Headquarters. The three figure that if they succeed, they'll have a good chance of hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier, Virgil Cole miss ... bystanders and blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their ... by a helicopter, but an A-1 Skyraider pilot who was killing off the Vietnamese that were trying to shoot the crew. The setting of the book was in the Vietnam Era, most likely in the early years. There were various settings like the aircraft carrier, Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and inside the planes. ...
- 143: The Turbulent Sixties
- ... way current generations listen to and buy music. The songwriters of the 1960's were rarely without inspiration. Perhaps the most powerful incentive came from the movement to end the Vietnam War. Many of the most prominent musicians of that generation aided the struggle to protest against and attempt to end the war. The most popular song to be considered an ... representing peace, flying cannon balls describing war and violence, and roads and seas symbolizing the hardships and struggles there would have to be with eliminating the war. Demonstrations against the Vietnam War took place in many major cities and college campuses. While many of these demonstrations had only peaceful motives, violent methods were often used to break them up. Take for example the famous student takeover of Columbia University. Black students arguing for civil rights, and white students protesting against the Vietnam war successfully took over Hamilton Hall, the Low Library and the Dean's office, as well as three other buildings. The Grateful Dead were smuggled onto campus and played ...
- 144: Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"
- ... While in the marines he could never decide if he wanted to go back home or stay. He could never decide whether or not he should go speak up about Vietnam. He could not decide whether or not he wanted to get married. He is constantly trying to become whatever it is he is to become. He knows he was kept ... for some reason and he is continually trying to figure out what that reason is. Which brings me to another point in the book. Even when he came back from Vietnam as a cripple, he did not speak out against it, he still believed in what was happening over there, he still believed in what he had been fighting for. Yes ... State shootings that he began to question his beliefs. He began to listen to what the other side had to say. To speak up about what was really happening in Vietnam. The story feels like it is taking place over years, he does so many things that you cannot possibly see where all this time is coming from, but it ...
- 145: Stanely Kubrick
- ... a malfunctioning unit devoid of emotion and humanity. "What is your major malfunction" becomes the ironic mantra of the film as it shifts from its "marine camp" stage to its Vietnam stage. When characters like the helicopter gunman who shoots men, women, and children are introduced the audience finds that the "malfunction" is in the characters transformation from humans into machines ... society, and their individual story really tells the story of no one individual, rather a conglomerate of many. Thus Kubrickian film worlds become worlds like no other. His version of Vietnam is unlike any other Vietnam ever scene, the post-apocalyptic world of Clockwork is again a world unlike any ever seen because he is creating films which are allegorical and symbolic-pertaining to this ...
- 146: WoodStock Music Festival
- ... became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred and authority, protested against the Vietnam War, supported the civil rights movement, dressed differently, and experimented with sex and illegal use of drugs. Woodstock began by four partners Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band ... became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred and authority, protested against the Vietnam War, supported the civil rights movement, dressed differently, and experimented with sex and illegal use of drugs. Woodstock began by four partners Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band ... became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred and authority, protested against the Vietnam War, supported the civil rights movement, dressed differently, and experimented with sex and illegal use of drugs. Woodstock began by four partners Michael Lang, the manager of a rock ...
- 147: Jimi Hendrix Report
- ... All Along The Watchtower was a protest song that was pure and simple. During the late 1960's music such as this were very popular because they protested against the Vietnam War, the draft, and government in general. The songs on Electric Ladyland showed a marked turn for Hendrix that indicated that as his comfort in his own abilities and heritage grew, the faith that he once had in the world was being torn apart by the Vietnam War and his increasing realization that everything in the world is not necessarily made better by his own success. By the time the next album was to be recorded, the ... was very similar to the Jimi Hendrix experience despite the fact that there was a different bassist and drummer. This album was dedicated to all of the fighters in the Vietnam War and was titled First Rays of The New Rising Sun. This album expressed his feelings on war and peace. For example a song called "Freedom," had discussed Jimi' ...
- 148: Assassination Of JFK
- ... moment of the Bay of Pigs disaster until the day he died. JFK did not trust the CIA and he reportedly intended to dismantle it after the 1964 election. In Vietnam, the CIA refused to carry out instructions from the ranking American official in the country. The CIA ignored President Kennedy's directive that it not initiate operations requiring greater firepower than a handgun. It also ignored JFK's orders to stop working with the Mafia. When Kennedy heard the news that South Vietnam's dictator Ngo Diem had been murdered by a CIA-backed coup, against his express wishes, he was outraged. Kennedy was no fan of Diem's, but he did not ... the failure at the Bay of Pigs. When Watergate whistleblower John Dean opened Hunt's private safe, he found bogus telegrams that falsely linked JFK with the assassination of South Vietnam's corrupt dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. Where was E. Howard Hunt on November 22, 1963? Hunt has given conflicting accounts of where he was at the time of the ...
- 149: Heroes 2
- ... years to the late 1960's. The place is Southeast Asia, and the man is one Lieutenant/Colonel, United States Navy, Robinson "Robbie" Risner. Shot down during a mission over Vietnam, Colonel Risner is taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese, and placed in a cell in downtown Hanoi. As he parades down the street as a prize for the patriots to ... War, was able to give a reason for something that went from the back pages of some off-beat, underground newspaper in 1954, when the United States began aiding South Vietnam, to the headlines even of this day, 43 years later, of the New York Times and the covers of Time, Newsweek, etc. On the last page of his gripping account, he is asked "Why?" Why our involvement in Vietnam? He said, "I am a pilot! I'm a professional!" Let's not stop there, though, unless we're ready to stop at "We the people. . .ˇ¨ He went a ...
- 150: Biological and Chemical Weapons!!
- ... point of view of Prince Andrei who once said, “the object of warfare is murder.”12 Furthermore, as to destruction of natural resources, it is stated U.S warfare on Vietnam had great consequences on soil and landscape, vegetation and wildlife of Vietnamese. During 1961-1971, the United States defoliated parts of Vietnam as to win the war. This program was designed to abolish all the forest Vietnamese soldiers used as cover when attacking. “About 10% of the total area of South Vietnam was sprayed with 20 gallon of herbicides. Many areas received repeated sprayings, and farmers and their families were often doused in the chemicals.”13 In known defoliating compound, Agent ...
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