... executive privilege Khrushchev Nikita constitutional dictatorship Soviet Union executive orders Johnson Lyndon LBJ Monroe Doctrine Korean War NATO civil rights Jefferson Thomas Fourteenth Amendment labor disputes faithful execution clause Vietnam War Lincoln Abraham vice presidency...

... of resources and a myriad of unintended, negative consequences. Often such policies end in tragedy. The Vietnam War is a classic example of this phenomenon. Lyndon Johnson and other officials shared faulty premises that propelled the United States toward war and determined the strategy leaders chose to wage...

... rationality and motivated reasoning provide the potential for predispositions to exercise a powerful influence on decision making. They often distort leaders’ processing of information and bias them against changing their minds. In cases such as the Vietnam War and Iraq War, policymakers mistakenly assumed...

...This chapter examines Vietnam War imagery. It focuses on the work of two photographers who produced fresh and influential visual documentations of the war, though their work differs greatly in style and motivation. The first is Larry Burrows, whose work for Life magazine...

... American Association United Community Corporation UCC Williams Robert F ACLU American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey black snipers mimeography Vietnam War Addonizio Hugh Kelly David Brown Rebecca Harrison Isaac Moss Eddie National Guard New Jersey New Jersey State Police police brutality...

...In the Vietnam War, the U.S. sought to preserve the viability of a noncommunist South Vietnam. America waged a ground campaign in South Vietnam and an air campaign, “Rolling Thunder,” over North Vietnam. While the air campaign ran the risk of inducing China's intervention, U.S. strategy avoided...

... for restricting civil liberties, September 2001. Figure 7.5. Relationship between support for the Iraq War and negative civil liberties judgments, 2001–6. Figure 7.6. Support for the Vietnam War and civil liberties judgments. Figure 7.7. Support for civil liberties, 1938–45. Figure 7.8. Support...

... to debates about conscription for the Vietnam War and contraception, then entered into contests over abortion, gay rights, religious freedom, and healthcare. abortion Committee on Pro Life Activities conscientious objection Hawkins Augustus McHugh James T Negre Louis Straukamp James E Supreme Court...

...This chapter examines how American Catholics lobbied the federal government and the Church’s own hierarchy to recognize conscience rights during the Vietnam War. Lay Catholics like activist Gordon Zahn urged the bishops to back conscientious objection, which they did in a statement offered in 1972...

... Dwight Diem Ngo Dinh McNamara Robert Stump Felix Vietnam War Castro Fidel Operation Mongoose Parrot Thomas Johnson Lyndon B Lodge Henry Cabot Jr Buddhism Confucianism Orientalism Taoism Hinduism International Association for the History of Religions IAHR pluralism religious Bunker...

... for the Vietnam War. Their crime was one among scores of such break-ins perpetrated by antiwar protestors, many of them part of a movement called the “Catholic Left.” Started by priests, nuns, and devout lay Catholics, a loosely organized network disrupted the American induction system for years. One of the last...

...: the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and the Vietnam War. There are several similarities between these historical conflicts and recent ones that may explain why torture has been more readily used in them. These include racism toward the enemy, allowing for its dehumanization; the fact that these were all...

...This chapter shows how lay Catholics deployed conscience language to resist the draft for the Vietnam War. Catholic laymen, well versed on the doctrine, constantly mentioned the right to follow conscience in official state paperwork. They claimed the Church had been defending conscience...

... CIA Dooley Thomas A pluralism religious Vietnam War Tri Faith America First Indochina War Geneva Accords Smith Walter Bedell John XXIII pope Orientalism anti Communism Buddhism Operation Passage to Freedom Redmond Daniel Diem Ngo Dinh Dulles Allen Lansdale Edward Lederer William...

...Figure 2.1. Trends in support for the Korean War. Figure 2.2. Trends in support for the Vietnam War. Figure 2.3. Trends in support for the Gulf War. Figure 2.4a. Trends in support for the Afghanistan War, 2001–2. Figure 2.4b. Trends in support for the Afghanistan...

... in support for the Vietnam War, Gallup poll. Figure 5.1. Parties and war rhetoric in Congress, 1938–45. Figure 5.2a. Evidence of polarization pattern, Gallup, November 1939: Approve of changes to the neutrality law. Figure 5.2b. Evidence of polarization pattern, OPOR, January 1941...

...Chapter Six examines Chinese American political activity in the 1960s against the backdrop of the black civil rights movement, growing Asian American socioeconomic mobility, the Vietnam War, changes in US immigration policy, and the intergenerational tensions that the Asian American movement helped...

...This chapter examines Kim Jones's representation of the Vietnam War in his art, including Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw. Jones has had the temerity and exceptional force of temperament, personality, ingenuity, and originality to teach his hand to draw. Through that act, in all its...

... in the face of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972, and normalization under Jimmy Carter. The result was an internationalism that accommodated détente and realpolitik even as Goldwater continued to avow support for the Guomindong regime on Taiwan. With the rise...

... that were of key significance throughout the Vietnam debacle. Aside from the Cambodia catastrophe, Congress provided sufficient authorization for virtually every aspect of the Vietnam War to address all constitutional requirements, and Congress likewise enacted resolutions authorizing the use of military...