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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
John Wooden
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Basketball Player
War
Deny
People
Rights
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Opposed
Protests
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The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Henry Kissinger
/
Great Tragedy
Slogans
Study
Tragedy
Vietnam
Vietnam War
War Great Country
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I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
Terry Gilliam
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Screenwriter
War
Demonstration
Losing
Losing Control
Police
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Bashed
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Warren Giles
/
Clergy
Immoral
Ought
Sides
Vietnam
Vietnam War
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The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
Robert Hass
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Poet
Different Ways
Doubtful
Iraq War
Usefulness
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Address
Ways
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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
Graydon Carter
/
Journalist
War
Decision
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Architects
Explain
Futile
Near
Quest
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The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.
Craig Venter
/
Geneticist
Better Off
Destroyed
Fortunate
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Life War Experience
Eliminated
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My father, a Vietnam War pilot, used to tell me that the only really bad decisions are the ones you stick to even when you get facts that support a change in the mission.
Harris Faulkner
/
War
Facts
Support
Used
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Decisions
Bad
Mission
Pilot
Stick
Tell
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My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
Justin Sane
/
Guitarist
War
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Parent
Pittsburgh
Rights
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Civil
Restaurant
Rights Movement
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Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.
Nancy Wilson
/
Band
Mike
Tough
Vancouver
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Draft
Period
Originally
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
Richard Branson
/
Business Magnate
War
Financial Resources
Lad
Numbers
Profile
Resources
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Years
War Time End
Magazine
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The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
Mort Walker
/
Comic Strip Creator
War
Army
Attacking
Both Sides
Representing
Sides
Survived
Two Sides
Vietnam
Vietnam War
War People Who
Experiences
Guys
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In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.
Dennis Cardoza
/
Former U.s. Representative
Education
War
Congress
Construction
Educate
Memorial
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Authorized
Center
Provide
Visitor
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry Kissinger
/
War
Abstract
Interest
President
President Nixon
Unnatural
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Why
Emphasize
National
National Interest
Nixon
Rather
Required
Tried
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I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
Richard Hell
/
Singer-Songwriter
War
Collapse
Handle
Input
Media
Overwhelmed
Proliferation
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Tuned
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There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.
Freddie Wong
/
Revolution
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Asians
Cultural
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'Turn to Stone' was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.
Joe Walsh
/
Former United States Representative
Frustration
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Attended
Nixon
Protesting
Stone
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin
/
Designer
War
Artist
Felt
Irrelevant
Memorial
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Did
Read
Deliberately
Eclipsed
Veterans
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'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
James Dobson
/
Author
War
Book
Changed
Children
Dare
Discipline
Midst
Principles
Rebellion
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Written
Child
Context
Published
Rearing
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The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.
Robert Shapiro
/
Defender
Graduate School
Undergraduate
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Causing
Drafted
Finish
Graduate
Received
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George Mcgovern
/
Historian
War
Iraq
Iraq War
National Security
Standing
Truth Is
Two
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Conflicts
War Truth World
Diminished
Oppose
Weakened
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Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. Ha.
Ron Howard
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Film Director
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Richard
Nixon
Pumping
Wound
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I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.
Frances Arnold
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Authority
Authority Figures
Figures
Rebel
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Circle
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach
/
Writer
War
Catharsis
Grassroots
Injustice
Mind
Moral
Powerful
Resistance
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Expressed
Popular
Shown
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I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
Graham Nash
/
Singer-Songwriter
War
Both Sides
Homelessness
People
Sides
Trying
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Coin
Consider
Equate
Tragedies
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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
Radhanath Swami
/
Author
Kings
War
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Luther
Movement
Rights
Tested
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Civil
Draft
Eligible
Listened
Martin Luther King
Qualify
Raging
Rights Movement
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Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.
David Oshinsky
/
Historian
Coming Of Age
Fascists
Policemen
Tangled
Vietnam
Vietnam War
War Time Age
Fascist
Presidents
Supporters
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The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions that reveal themselves in our voting.
J. D. Vance
/
Finest
Force
Military
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Voting
Created
Cultural
Divisions
Geographic
Reinforced
Reveal
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I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.
Al Feldstein
/
Writer
Both Sides
Coal
Mad
Sides
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Wide
Aspects
Hippies
Protesting
Rake
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The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.
Robert Mundell
/
Fixed
Gold
Inflation
Secular
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Associated
Nearly
By The Time
Ounce
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We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.
Steven Weber
/
Actor
War
Games
Guilt
Innocent
Missing
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Utter
Duped
Pawn
Soldiers
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There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.
G. Edward Griffin
/
Film Producer
Accomplished
Federal Reserve
Funding
Mechanism
Vietnam
Vietnam War
World War I
Historians
Reserve
World War
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
Margaret Atwood
/
Poet
War
Canada
Civil War
Safe
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Civil
Draft
Hauled
Railroad
Underground
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In the late '60s, Senator Charles E. Goodell, Republican of New York, spoke out against the Vietnam War, bringing on the wrath of the Nixon administration and, as it turned out, the disaffection of conservative voters.
George Vecsey
/
Author
Administration
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Voters
Wrath
Bringing
Charles
Senator
Nixon
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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
William C. Kirby
/
Professor
War
Asia
East
East Asia
Thinking
Unimaginable
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Northeast
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
/
Scientist
Medical
War
Launching
Medical School
Military
Military Service
Public Health
School
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Assignment
Avoid
Fiercely
Fulfill
Graduating
Opposed
Service
Sought
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Samantha Power
/
Director For Multilateral Affairs
War
Colleagues
Escalation
Realizing
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Advocate
Mr
Defend
Earlier
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia
/
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Congress
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Corrupt
Washington
Resides
Tends
Wants
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell
/
Economist
Kids
War
Administration
Brilliant
Defense
Folks
Johnson
Pentagon
Results
Secretary
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Disastrous
Lyndon
Present
Robert
Tried
Whiz
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In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights leaders, black nationalists, Communists and Vietnam War protesters.
Asha Rangappa
/
Civil Rights
Exposed
Surveillance
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Spying
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I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.
Helmut Schmidt
/
Former Chancellor Of Germany
Berlin
Elders
Uprising
Vietnam
Vietnam War
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If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.
Leigh Whannell
/
Screenwriter
Consumerism
Dawn
Metaphor
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Have Fun
Zombies
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
/
Journalist
War
Covered
Defense
Former
Lost
Mistake
Remember
Secretary
Shock
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Years
Admitted
After
Along
Were
Ended
Lies
Robert
Twenty
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I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
Craig Venter
/
Geneticist
California
Nasty
Southern
Southern California
Surf
Surfing
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vocation
Bum
Drafted
Little Thing
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Larry David
/
Actor
War
Army
Height
National Guard
President
President Bush
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Bush
Finally
Happier
Guard
Motives
Questioned
Reserve
Served
Stood
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell
/
Journalist
Imagination
War
Add
Civil Rights
Elements
Fire
Journalist
Movement
Plenty
Political Power
Rights
Stew
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Apply
Blacks
Civil
Novice
Tensions
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
Dan Gilroy
/
Screenwriter
Cinema
Commonplace
Escapism
Relevance
Superhero
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Entirely
Spectacle
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In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
Jim Lee
/
Artist
Comic
New Technology
Proliferation
Radiation
Reflection
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Comic Books
Dealt
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In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.
Thurston Clarke
/
War
America
Belief
Honorable
Moral
Noble
Soul
Three
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Wounded
Had
War People America
Them
Challenging
Nation
Inflicted
Riots
Summers
Uniquely
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
James Buchan
/
Novelist
War
East
Exclusive
Muslim World
Russia
Second World War
Sri Lanka
Struggle
Suicidal
Suicide
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Far East
Lanka
Muslim
Nationalist
Sri
Tactic
World War
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