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...assignment was far from Halstead's first encounter with the U.S. military. He covered the arrival of the Marines in Viet Nam in 1965, and he was there to witness their departure a decade later. Early one morning aboard the Lexington, Halstead watched Captain Eugene McDaniel walking his flight deck. McDaniel had been shot down during the Viet Nam War and spent six years in a prison camp, but not only was he still in the Navy, he was still flying while serving as the skipper of the Lexington. "There was a ghostly fog rolling in," recalls Halstead...
...Secretaries of State, he has never published a single book and has rarely written articles on foreign affairs, outside of official speeches and reports. And although he was the top deputy to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and strongly endorsed President Johnson's escalation of the U.S. troop commitment to Viet Nam, he has received remarkably little personal criticism for that role...
...early 1970s, U.S. campuses were boiling with protest against the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington. The Weatherman organization and other extremist groups set off bombs in Madison, Wis., San Rafael, Calif., and New York City, causing the deaths of at least four people. It was a time of sad and sorry crisis for the country, and the FBI was under intense pressure from both the Nixon White House and the public to stop the violence. As is now known, the bureau used illegal wiretaps, burglaries and mail thefts in searching for evidence against...
...incidence of suicide, psychosis, drug- and alcohol-related problems and unemployment is much higher among Viet vets compared to the general population...
...many peasants did the Viet Minh mobilize to help bring dismantled heavy artillery, piece-by-piece, over mountains for the final siege on the French at Dien Bien...