Jay Parini
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES SALMAN RUSHDIE BOB GUNTON JOANNA LUMLEY Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitabl... H. R. MCMASTER Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffa... DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/1... RICHARD ENGEL Observers on the ground provide a close-in view of a disaster. Aircraft can provide a broader view. ... HOWARD COHEN And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. ... SHARRON ANGLE The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of impl... CHARLES BASS SAM BROWNBACK 'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted ... JEROME CHARYN BARBARA JORDAN When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became p... RICK PERLSTEIN JIANG ZEMIN MARTIN FILLER Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmas... RICK PERLSTEIN At this round, China returned to its position of delay and no compromise by insisting on terms for a... CASS JOHNSON THOMAS SOWELL A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boo... PETER DEFAZIO ROBERT JACKSON THOMAS MALLON GREG GRANDIN Investors tend not to have a big problem with split government because for many investors, the gover... JOSEPH MCALINDEN Not many people in the U.S. government view Viktor Chernomyrdin as someone who was a staunch reforme... DAVID KRAMER If the government does continue with this level of response, I think it will build confidence in the... BELLA BIRD ROBERT DALLEK MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I... LUCAS PAPADEMOS Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help o... CALVIN JILLSON DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have ... TIM SCOTT ROBERT DALLEK EVAN OSNOS I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded ... ROSANNE CASH STEPHEN HARPER CRAIG GROESCHEL SALMAN KHURSHID WONG KAR-WAI For the money that the U.S. federal government paid farmers between 1995 and 2003, ... the governmen... CATO INSTITUTE Citizens Against Government Waste would probably say that it would be a waste to waste our taxpayer ... JEN BLUESTEIN The idea came about through our partnership [with China Daily] in China, where teaching and learning... STEVEN SCHWARTZ In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union,... JOE LHOTA BRUCE JACKSON The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other b... WAYNE ALLARD MICHAEL HAYDEN I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't ... ALAN WILSON One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ... MICHAEL FROME STEPHEN AMBROSE It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last f... JAMES BOVARD We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour governm... JOHN PILGER I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I beli... ANDREW CUOMO The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it b... WARREN RUDMAN HO CHI MINH Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our ... PAUL BROUN CALVIN COOLIDGE JOHN BOLTON Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost th... ROBERT CARO NORMAN COUSINS RONALD REAGAN To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up t... DAVID MALPASS When you’ve survived flying helicopters in Vietnam, taken on the U.S. government, fought the mob i... BOB MILLER In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot ... CARL PALADINO EDMUND MORGAN I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at... BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The g... TIM SCOTT GEORGE MCGOVERN Through the Service to America Medals, we give the best within government their due respect, and hon... MAX STIER Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. ELIZABETH WARREN MATT APUZZO HUGO BLACK ALAN MOORE I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's g... RAFAEL PALMEIRO There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government ... ROBERT CARO STEVE BUYER JOE BIDEN MARK BOWDEN SAM BROWNBACK I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the groun... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people... LUIS VIDEGARAY CASO If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to ac... MARC FABER In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson... ADA HUXTABLE ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE ROBERT J. SHILLER DAVID LIMBAUGH DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their ... TRENT FRANKS What you have is someone with a fundamental distrust of government rolling the dice, cutting taxes a... BRUCE BUCHANAN There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the Unite... SUSAN RICE DAVID IGNATIUS Our preference would have been that a government mandate of this nature be proposed and debated in t... MARK STINNEFORD J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT MITT ROMNEY BOBBY JINDAL SUN YAT-SEN ALLYSON SCHWARTZ LYNDON B. JOHNSON MARCO RUBIO President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim... DANIEL ELLSBERG
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You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
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