Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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And yet that very fixity of high moral purpose under the slogan of no more Munichs has in fact, because of our preoccupation with civil war in Indochina, brought it to pass that ironically precisely the Czech frontiers were once again forcibly crossed at the very moment when there was...
CHANGE in a policy that is seen to have been misconceived and to have proved unjust is not defeatism. In the Church it would be called collective repentance. As a secular nation, suffused however with some scriptural ideals as a kind of convenantal constitutional commonwealth, America is the greater for...
A national change of mind, an administration change of course, a national admission of an unwitting misapplication of our corporate resources will not with certainty lead to peace at home or abroad. The international enhancement of the prestige of France through the withdrawal from what Frenchmen for generations had regarded...
What we are asking is not merely a change but a reversal of policy, because only by a reversal of policy and the acknowledgment of an unwitting national mistake can we and the Vietnamese be freed. Having eventually come as a nation to recognize that our intervention in Vietnam was...
But let not the concepts of Vietnamization and honorable peace confuse our nation into imagining that we can construe our intervention in Indochinese affairs since the end of World War II as somehow right, because we have expended so much material treasure and American life in hopefully our last venture...