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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Vietnam War

Vietnam War stories: 50 news summaries

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 Paul: I Was the Political Beatle 

Paul claims he introduced band to anti-war ideas

Dec 15, 08 9:29 AM CST
(Newser) - In a revelation that will likely befuddle longtime Beatles fans, Paul McCartney claims he was the one who turned the band onto politics, the Times reports. Though McCartney was writing pop songs while activist John Lennon penned blatantly political tunes, as McCartney tells it in a Prospect magazine interview, it... More »

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music • Paul McCartney • John Lennon • celebrity • political activism • pacifists • Vietnam War • Beatles • protesters • celebrity interview

(Newser) - As the tumultuous 1968 presidential campaign closed, Lyndon Johnson learned of attempts by Richard Nixon's aides to undermine peace efforts in Vietnam, actions he referred to as "treason," The final batch of audio recordings made during LBJ's administration, released yesterday by his presidential library, capture the frustration of... More »

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Lyndon Johnson • Richard Nixon • Vietnam War • Hubert Humphrey • 1968

BOOK REVIEW

The Culture Wars, College Football Style

Michigan-Ohio State rivalry illuminates tale of  '60s, '70s upheaval

Nov 21, 08 5:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The cultural disconnect between conservative college football programs and America’s liberalizing culture in the late 1960s and early ‘70s is the theme of War as They Knew It, a book by Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg. The survey of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry (which continues tomorrow) through... More »

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rivalry • Richard Nixon • Michigan Wolverines • New Republic • liberals • Vietnam War • University of Michigan • book reviews • Jonathan Chait • Bo Schembechler • Ohio State University • Ohio State Buckeyes • 1960s • 1970s • conservatives • culture wars • Detroit Free Press • Woody Hayes • Michael Rosenberg

OPINION

Don't Question McCain's 'Nam Heroism 

Mac was an inspiration to fellow POWs

Oct 19, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s plenty wrong with John McCain, but questions about his heroism in Vietnam just don’t stand up, biographer Matt Welch writes in the LA Times. McCain “gave great strength to his fellow POWs,” and “unless you think that inspiring your fellow prisoners to resist and... More »

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John McCain • POW • Vietnam War • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

Lost Children of Vietnam War Seek Their Place

Amerasians, shunted aside in both cultures, want citizenship

Oct 10, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some American servicemen left children behind when they came home from Vietnam and Korea, and those Amerasians, now in their 30s and 40s, are stuck between two cultures that don't fully accept them. "I am not a refugee, but I am being treated as one," says a member... More »

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immigration • US troops • Vietnam War • Korean War • US citizenship • Asian-Americans • Amerasians • biracial

GLOSSIES

For McCain, Winning Is War's Only Honorable End

US must defend honor, even preemptively; Iraq offers chance to make up for Vietnam

Sep 10, 08 2:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s views on war and defending the US were shaped by his Navy father and by his own time in Vietnam, Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the Atlantic, with victory as the only honorable outcome. His father believed public sentiment led to defeat in Vietnam even as a winning... More »

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Iraq • John McCain • Vietnam • Vietnam War • Henry Kissinger • McCain 2008 • Iraq exit strategy

McCain Wins Unlikely Support in Vietnam

Ruling class thinks former POW would increase trade

Aug 21, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has won admiration from an unlikely place: Vietnam, the nation he bombed 23 times during the war there. Including politicians, newspaper editors, and even his former captor, Vietnamese are voicing support for the candidate. The Republican pushed to restore ties with the country a decade ago, and many... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Vietnam • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • Election 2008 • Hanoi

TRAVEL

 Saigon Buries War Past 

Breakneck rush to development leaves high-rises in place of multi-tiered history

Aug 19, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - It looks like Saigon, “the Paris of the East,” can't wait to ditch its colorful culture and tumultuous history for a shining capitalist future, Peter Jon Lindberg writes in Travel + Leisure. Officially Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese “cosmopolis,” 8 million strong, boasts the world's... More »

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travel • Vietnam • globalization • Vietnam War • expatriates • boom economy • Saigon • Ho Chi Minh City

GOP's Hagel Will Travel
to Iraq With Obama

Republican has been a vocal critic of the war

Jul 11, 08 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP national-security stalwart and longtime McCain friend Chuck Hagel will join Barack Obama on his upcoming trip to Iraq, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The retiring Nebraskan senator has been a vocal critic of the war and the Bush administration. Despite his Republican credentials, he has been floated as... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • Vietnam War

Once Pals, Kerry and McCain Are Now on the Rocks

War, security policy has blasted open gap created during '04 campaign

Jul 9, 08 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 2004 election cracked the once-close personal relationship between John McCain and John Kerry, the Washington Post notes, and differences over the Iraq war has left the bond between the former Navy men fractured. "The same intensity of their feelings as veterans which brought them together has pushed them... More »

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John McCain • John Kerry • Vietnam War • Iraq war • POW/MIA • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

OPINION

Sorry, Veterans, Vietnam Is Profitable Now

American companies move to Hanoi, reap benefits of communism

Jul 9, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - More expensive Chinese labor has American enterprises heading to Vietnam, moving Harold Meyerson to wonder, in the Washington Post, why 58,000 US soldiers died trying to defend democracy there. "American business, backed by the American government, has realized that the problem with communism wasn't that it was undemocratic... More »

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China • Vietnam • globalization • labor costs • manufacturing • Vietnam War • Communism • industry

 Iraq Films Get Army's Attention  

Film liaisons offer help; some directors see spin

Jul 7, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - War films can help shape public perception, and the Army is trying to guide moviemakers away from negative portrayals of the Iraq conflict like the ones that dominated films about Vietnam. Army liaisons to Hollywood offer equipment, expertise—and script alterations that some filmmakers see as spin. The LA Times... More »

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Iraq • film • US military • US Army • film director • Vietnam War • Brian De Palma • Paul Haggis • Redacted • film studio • Iraq war • Iraq war movies • anti-war movies

McCain's War Record Now
Fair Game

Pro-Obama retired general Clark turns up volume on whispers

Jun 30, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wesley Clark's answer to a question on Face the Nation yesterday has exposed a simmering campaign issue, Politico reports: whether John McCain’s Vietnam ordeal translates to relevant experience for the presidency. "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be... More »

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John McCain • POW • Wesley Clark • Vietnam War • negative campaigning • Hanoi

Swift Boat Vets Want Their
Name Back

Vietnam servicemen bemoan association with Kerry attack ad

Jun 30, 08 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - These days, the phrase "Swift boat" has come to mean a vicious political attack of the kind suffered by John Kerry in the 2004 election. While the term has gained such currency that it's now used as a verb, one group is seriously miffed: the Navy veterans who, like... More »

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John Kerry • Navy • Swift Boat • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • US Navy • Swift Boating • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

 Hanoi Captor 
 Endorses McCain, 
 Denies Torture 

Duyet calls ex-POW a friend

Jun 28, 08 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s Vietnam War jailer says he would vote for him because of McCain's willingness to forgive and look to the future, the AP reports. In the same breath, Tran Trong Duyet denied that McCain was tortured during his 5-year imprisonment and accused him of making up the stories... More »

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John McCain • POW • Vietnam War • McCain 2008 • Tran Trong Duyet

 McCain's
 War Views 
 Echo '74 Thesis 

GOP hopeful notes dangers of '60s antiwar movement

Jun 15, 08 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - “A man’s ability to perform credibly as a prisoner of war” is founded on “a strong belief in his nation’s foreign policy,” John McCain wrote in a 1974 essay that shows the seeds of the candidate's views on public support for war. The New York ... More »

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John McCain • propaganda • foreign policy • Vietnam War • Iraq war • National War College

 Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven 

Rolling Thunder roars into DC to honor vets

May 26, 08 4:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Harleys roared past Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday in what has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition: the "iron salute" of members of national veterans organization Rolling Thunder.  It's a festival of engines, leather, denim and patriotism, reports the Washington Post. More »

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White House • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • Harley Davidson • George W. Bush • Memorial Day • Vietnam Veterans Memorial • Fourth of July • Rolling Thunder • POW/MIA

OPINION

 McCain Must
 Open Up
 to Win: Rove 

Too-private candidate is hurting himself, says Bush strategist

Apr 30, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - For John McCain to win in November, he needs to let Americans know about McCain the man as well as McCain the candidate, Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal. The Bush campaign mastermind thinks the candidate's very private nature means not enough people are hearing about McCain's heroism... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Vietnam War • Republican strategist • Election 2008

 Not an Icon, a Man 

Would civil rights legend be controversial in today's political climate?

Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Washington Post looks past the legend at the multidimensional figure scholars and King's associates consider his true legacy. ”His challenge was much bigger than being nice," says historian Taylor Branch. "It was even bigger than race.... More »

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race • race relations • poverty • civil rights • Vietnam War • Martin Luther King Jr. • 1960s • Jeremiah Wright • civil rights movement • Taylor Branch

 Peace, Man: Symbol Turns 50 

The sign has endured for half a century now

Apr 4, 08 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The peace symbol, an inspiration for decades of anti-war movements and one of the most recognizable hieroglyphics, turns 50 today. The symbol was introduced in 1958 at a British rally against the atomic bomb. “I drew myself, a man in despair, and put a circle around it to represent... More »

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protests • Vietnam War • peace sign • civil rights movement

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