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...couple performing a song-and-dance act pulled the candidate out of his chair, he seemed a bit confused, then joined them. The show over, Reagan delivered his speech somewhat stiffly but with more emphasis and bite than earlier in the campaign. "No more Taiwans and no more Viet Nams," he pledged. "No more abandonments of friends by the U.S. ... We don't care if we're not liked. We're going to be respected...
Bush has hired a speech tutor to zip up his delivery. He conveys genuine passion as he warms to some favorite themes. "I never got caught up in the immorality of our role in Viet Nam," he declares. "We were not immoral in our purpose." His right hand chops the air. "I'm sick and tired of apologizing for the United States." Instead of fudging, he frankly admits his lack of knowledge about some questions. "I have a good intellect," he will say. "But there is a hell of a lot I don't know. And I know...
...time, Boyce later claimed, he was disillusioned with the U.S. because of the Viet Nam War, Watergate and what he learned of the CIA's activities. To get back at the U.S., said Boyce, he worked out a plot with Andrew Daulton Lee, 27, a teen-age chum from the affluent Southern California town of Palos Verdes who had been convicted of drug dealing and was then on the run. The two schemed to supply top secret material to an agent in the Soviet Union's Mexico City embassy...
...After Viet Nam, the U.S. did not want bigger military budgets. What changed that perception were Soviet activities in Africa and elsewhere, and a general feeling that the Soviet Union was not playing by the rules of détente...
...cold war defense spending, without any concomitant reduction in social expenditures, could be like hitting the gas pedal on a car already careering out of control down a hill. The last budgets that resembled this year's reach for both bullets and butter were President Johnson's Viet Nam-era spending programs, which unleashed the inflation that now plagues the nation...