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...story, of course. It is not news on the scale of, say, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk or the Tet offensive, but we will have to redefine the word news if we say that the disappearance of a United States Congressman's mistress, and her possible murder (by whom? by him?), does not merit some notice in the media...
...There was the time in the sixties, the professor could say, when Brigid Bardot and I were at our summer place in Antibes, and an urgent call came through from the White House, from Lyndon Johnson's special assistant, Mike Montaigne. Victor Charlie was on the warpath. The Tet offensive had just erupted. Numbah Ten! The President needed the me in Saigon, yesterday!, to cut orders from MAC-V to I-Corps and retake the Imperial City of Hue. The President himself came on the line: "Son, you tell Westy he can't make an omelet without breaking...
...Depression, not Pearl Harbor, not the death of Roosevelt. Not Dallas, or Selma, or Martin Luther King in Memphis, or the Tet offensive or Bobby Kennedy's death. Not Watergate. Nothing to merit a full, sonorous documentary on the History Channel...
Ever since Ho Chi Minh's 1968 Tet Offensive helped force President Lyndon Johnson out of that year's presidential race, the more sophisticated among America's enemies have paid close attention to U.S. domestic politics. And right now, they may like what they see: a nation of unrivaled power unable to choose a leader...
...study. After graduating--barely--he moved down to Newport Beach to surf. But he had smarts. As a draft-eligible nonstudent, he says, he got the highest score of 35,000 recruits on a Navy intelligence test. Trained as a hospital corpsman, he saw North Vietnam's devastating Tet offensive in 1968. Says his wife Claire Fraser, a prominent molecular biologist: "Vietnam changed him. It impressed on him the idea that time is precious, that you have to make every single minute of every single day count...