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- 191: Richard Nixon 2
- ... a changed man. In 1968 Nixon ran for the Presidential office again against Hubert Humphrey. Nixon won this election on the promise of peace and end to the war in Vietnam. I feel he made good on his promise to have peace and he began the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Many people were angry with Nixon for not just ending the war. I on the other hand feel Nixon was in his right mind for doing just what he did ... to change. He started to focus more on the people with the Checker Speech and environmental reforms. I feel that he did the right thing in gradually pulling out from Vietnam. I would not have done so. I also feel that the minor incident that happened with Watergate was illegal yes but was it reason enough to take a president ...
- 192: Oliver North
- ... enrolled into the United Sates Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As graduation neared, North chose the path of being a Marine Corps leader. He was later called into duty in Vietnam, where he was station with K Company of the Third Battalion, Third Marine Regiment, Third Division from December 3, 1968 to August 21, 1969. During his service, North led many ... operations, and was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. He was a "marine's marine", and was a one-of-a-kind leader. While in Vietnam, he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from Vietnam, he served as a planner in the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. After being promoted to Major in the Marine Corps, North led a detachment of Marines ...
- 193: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... had been filled. King also lost support among white Americans when he joined the growing number of antiwar activists in 1965 and began to publicly criticize American foreign policy in Vietnam. King’s outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (1959-1975) also angered President Johnson. On the other hand, some of King’s white supporters agreed with his criticisms of the United States involvement in Vietnam so strongly that they shifted their activism from civil rights to the antiwar movement. By the mid-1960’s King’s role as the unchallenged leader of the civil ...
- 194: The History of Thailand and Malaysia
- ... the great civilizations in history is ancient Southeast Asia. Ancient Southeast Asia consisted of many different countries. This region consisted of Cambodia, Burma, Brunei, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and most of Indonesia. Many kingdoms have risen and fell in Southeast Asia. About A.D. 100, people in the southern part of what is now Cambodia established the kingdom ... a great Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Cambodia. The Khmer empire reached its peak during the 1100’s. It took over much of the land that is now Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wars with the Thai weakened the Khmer kingdom. The Thai took over Angkor in 1431, and the Khmer abandoned the city. An independent Khmer kingdom, that had its capital near ...
- 195: Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asia When thinking of Southeast Asia you think mostly of chop souey, the Vietnam war, jungles, and very poor people. People don't think of the culture that developed and art that was created there. Southeast Asia is a modern, geographical term used to define the approximate location of territories to the south and the east of India and China. Those countries are North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Portuguese Timor, and the Philippines. Though all of these countries have a very mixed cultural base, it is mostly an "Indianized" area ...
- 196: My Lai Massacre
- ... get himself to Miami to the draft board. Calley did basic training at Ft Bliss, Texas and later to officer training at Ft. Benning, GA. He was shipped off to Vietnam in 1967. Calley tries to follow the rules at first, meaning not showing compassion for the civilians as he was taught. It was hard for the GI s to tell ... the orders to wipe out all the people in the villages came from Calley. There were also some GI s that spoke the truth, in Calley s defense. Rape in Vietnam was a common thing and it too happened in My Lai. One man that testified against Calley was stopped from raping a 12 year-old. Back then, if an American ...
- 197: Loneliness
- ... to her throughout most of their marriage. The letters were, ultimately, the cause of Charlotte's loneliness. Lyman, on the other hand, became lonely when his brother Henry returned from Vietnam. Henry had changed. Lyman explains, "I had been feeling down in the dumps about Henry around this time. We had always been together before" (Erdrich 150). He also explains, " . . . he was such a loner and I didn't know how to take it" (Erdrich 150). The Vietnam War's effect on Henry was the cause of Lyman's loneliness. Henry was not the same person that he was before he left. Lyman began to miss the times ...
- 198: New York Times Co. V. United S
- The New York Times printed allegedly classified documents that leaked from the Pentagon about the war in Vietnam. A 47 volume classified history of the American involvement in Vietnam was distributed to the Times and, later, the Post by Daniel Ellsberg, a minor writer in the Pentagon Papers. The Times published these papers bit by bit until the Nixon ...
- 199: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
- ... Scott Nagao About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their ... the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as ...
- 200: I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag...
- ... at the flag and utter the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in homeroom, I place my hand over my heart and remember the men and women who died over in Vietnam and Korea. With those two wars in mind, I also think of every other war fought and who lost a family member fighting for our country's sake. On a personal note, I think of my father fighting in Vietnam as a member of the Air Force and my Grandfather also serving in the military. This is America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. My opinions on the ...
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