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...Fonda announced plans to promote her new line of sweats and other workout clothes in a series of department stores throughout the country, a wave of resentment from her political past washed out her personal appearances one by one. Hundreds of angry callers, citing her antiwar actions during the Viet Nam era, detoured her scheduled stopovers in New Orleans, Miami and New York City (though she made quiet, unofficial visits to stores in both Miami and New Orleans). Finally, at Jordan Marsh in Boston, while two dozen Viet Nam veterans carried protest signs (JANE TRAITOR FONDA WE HATE...
...been widely criticized for its use of the herbicide Agent Orange as a defoliant in Southeast Asia. In another report released last week, the Air Force concluded that there is "insufficient evidence" to prove Agent Orange caused health problems. Thousands of Viet Nam veterans have sought disability payments for ailments they attribute to the defoliant, including malignant growths and birth defects...
...cannot lead the alliance or even contribute to its cohesion if we do not restore bipartisanship to our foreign policy. Ever since the Viet Nam War, we have disquieted our friends and confused, where we have not emboldened, our adversaries by periodic wide swings on essential elements of our policies. But the national interest does not change every four or eight years. At some point the national interest must be accepted by our public as clearly recognizable and constant. Otherwise, we shall become a source of dangerous instability, still relevant for our power but irrelevant for our ideas. A presidential...
Hart last week tried to exploit another potential Mondale liability, accusing him of being overly cautious. He noted that Mondale had not spoken out against the Viet Nam War until 1969, took 18 days before saying anything about the Grenada invasion, and waited months before calling for the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon. Picking up on a maladroit comment by Mondale's media adviser Roy Spence that Mondale "dares to be cautious," Hart declared, "The future can only be secured with a different kind of President-who dares to be bold, not cautious." Mondale readily concedes that his slowness...
...most of the postwar era there was still basic agreement on the moral imperative of defending freedom and the self-evident differences between totalitarian and democratic governments. But that broad consensus began to break down in the '60s and '70s. Partly in response to the Viet Nam tragedy, an era of paralyzing self-doubt ruled out just and legitimate uses of American power, even acts of self-defense...