Vietnam War 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/29/19
‘Blue water’ Navy veterans from Vietnam-era win Agent Orange benefits case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled overwhelmingly for these sailors, finding they are eligible for the same disability benefits as those who put boots on the ground or patrolled Vietnam’s inland rivers.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-26-2018
The national security adviser who colluded with foreign powers — decades before Michael Flynn
by Shane O’Sullivan
New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-26-2018
Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?
The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein say he came to Donald J. Trump’s aid with a diagnosis of bone spurs during the Vietnam draft.
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SOURCE: Politico
10-28-18
The Time a President Stoked a Protest So He Could Play the ‘Law and Order’ Card
by David Greenberg
Running against Democratic ‘mobs’ has worked for Republicans in the past.
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SOURCE: HarperCollins
9-12-18
The co-author of Robert McNamara’s memoirs has himself written a history of Vietnam
by Brian VanDeMark
He suggests that mistakes may have been avoided had policymakers understood, as we do today, our biases, as cognitive science now makes clear.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
8-21-18 (accessed)
The whole world is watching
How the 1968 Chicago 'police riot' shocked America and divided the nation.
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8/19/18
Emmy Voters: It’s Time to Brush Up on Your History
by Michael Stewart Foley
The PBS series on Vietnam may have made a big splash. But that doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject.
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8/10/18
The Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam Documentary Has Been Nominated for an Emmy in Several Categories
by Barbara Myers
It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.
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8/12/18
This Social Scientist’s Verdict on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam War Documentary
by James W. Russell
The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-20-18
It’s the 50th anniversary of the day Trump left college and (briefly) faced the draft
The same year that 16,899 U.S. soldiers died at the peak of the Vietnam War.
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SOURCE: UChicago News
5-2-18
In new book, UChicago historian examines rise of white power movement
Assistant Professor Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War.
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SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald
4-25-18
Michael Beschloss says this isn't the most politically divisive time in America
The political climate after the Revolutionary War was much more polarized, and so were the environments during and after the Civil War and during and after the Civil Rights era, including the Vietnam War.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-26-18
What Was the Vietnam War About?
by Christian G. Appy
How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-26-18
How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam
As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-24-18
Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out
by Fredrik Logevall
He had known for years that the Vietnam War would destroy him. In March 1968, it did.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
3-16-18
Only One Man Was Found Guilty for His Role in the My Lai Massacre
This Is what it was like to cover his trial.
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3-15-18
The Massacre that Was Dismissed as Fake News
by Scott Laderman
It was the My Lai Massacre. It happened 50 years ago this week.
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SOURCE: CBS News
3-11-18
Remembering 1968: How an upstart primary challenge ended a presidency
Lyndon Johnson had the power of incumbency, but his prospects fell when an upstart, Eugene McCarthy, decided to challenge him in the primaries.
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3/25/18
What You Know About the Tet Offensive May Not Be Quite Right
by Edwin Moise
It was not nearly as devastating a military defeat for the Communists, nor as devastating a political defeat for the US government, as is imagined.
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3/11/18
America’s Retreat from Asia Will Have Consequences
by Ang Cheng Guan
History shows how sensitive our Asian allies have been to signs of US weakness or indifference.