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...other modern Presidents came to be seriously isolated. Franklin Roosevelt's mobility was restricted by his polio and then by wartime security. For Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, political adversity, in the form of Viet Nam and Watergate, made it painful to move around much in the country. (Four decades earlier, Herbert Hoover had suffered similar imprisonment by the Depression; he was not much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested...
...Secretary of State George Shultz. At a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Shultz said the contra cutoff had dire implications: "Broken promises. Communist dictatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very border." Then he added angrily: "Here is your parallel between Viet Nam and Central America...
...Hill in 1954. In his first major Senate speech, he castigated the maverick Wisconsin Republican, Joseph McCarthy. Although his civil libertarianism and antipathy to Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants and sweeping Executive privilege sought by Nixon...
...have waited more than a decade to go on a space flight were disgruntled by Garn's mission. The Senator, however, has impressive flight credentials. The son of a World War I pilot, he began flying at 16. As a naval pilot Garn flew transport missions in Viet Nam. All told, he has logged some 10,000 hours of flying time--more than any of NASA's 90 active astronauts except Air Force Colonel Joseph Engle. Garn is also in superb physical condition; he carries a muscular 170 lbs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame and has a resting...
Many of the reservists were well prepared for the two weeks of maneuvers. Most were of Hispanic origin, almost two-thirds speak Spanish, and many were Viet Nam veterans. Hondurans from Las Hormigas, a village near the Texans' temporary base (dubbed "the Alamo"), responded with surprise and delight when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These...