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...majority, 48 of 100 members, serving their first terms with less than four years of service there. All in all, 61 will be Senators elected in the 1970s, 70 will never have served under a Democratic President other than Jimmy Carter, only 18 will have served before the Viet Nam War, and only 14 will remember...
Nothing I saw the troops or their officers do during the time I served in Viet Nam could not have been done by a 100-lb. female. The bleeding is the only hard part, and it requires no special skill...
McIntyre was an extremely cautious Senator, hesitating before opposing the White House even when it was in Republican hands. On the Armed Services Committee, he supported military aid to Saigon during the Viet Nam War. But he also favored trimming expensive new weapons programs like the Navy's Trident missile...
...more appealing for all of us leaders as well as followers-to separate ourselves from the mass than to seek out the alliances that can make us part of a majority." Voters seem to have lost the psychological need to feel themselves part of a large political cause; the Viet Nam War, Watergate and other scandals have left a deep residual cynicism that instructs Americans to beware of politicians...
...naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have not confronted the Viet Nam War. Says Grass: "If you don't face it, it means two things: you lost the war and you've also lost the ability to make clear why it happened...