... from California. His opponent was a liberal Congresswoman named Helen Douglas. After another bitterly fought campaign Nixon linked her voting record with that of the American-Labor-Party congressman from New York, who was widely regarded as pro-Communist. Nixon won the election by 680,000 votes. In 1952, Nixon was selected to be Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential- running mate, but shortly ... acknowledge Brown's victory, and attacked the press in a televised news conference. Most polical observers believed this was the end of his political career. After his defeat Nixon move to New ...

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... steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. The protesters left the dormitory town and went down the streets of the City of Kent in the morning on May 2. The City Mayor Leroy Satrom asked Governor James Rhodes to send the National Guard forces to school to suppress the protest after an anonymous student had burned the ... he was running to a car. A bullet went through Sandra Scheuer's throat as she was walking to class.3 The university was closed immediately and the city of Keny was placed under a 5:00 curfew with all entrances to the city blocked off....

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... ensued in Saigon. Millions of people wanted to flee leave the country. Most were unable to get aboard a U.S. plane or helicopter. According to an Associated Press article in the New York Times many of those who could not escape "rushed to drug stores to buy quantities of sleeping pills" "with which they could commit suicide." President Thieu resigned amidst the panic ... quoted admonishing the U.S. saying that the Paris peace accords "led the South Vietnamese to death." Days later, on May 30 Saigon fell to North Vietnam. Tanks and troops conquered the city with little resistance. ( Butl...

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... noted a fifty seven year old woman and her nineteen year old severely deformed son, as they live in a one bedroom shack, with a leaky roof and no running water within the city of Danang where some of the US military personnel were station. She was expose to Agent Orange during the war and believes it to be the reason for her son ... ), which was set to promote an international campaign to gain justice and compensation for Agent Orang victims. Preliminary hearing began in January, 2005 at the US Federal Court in New York, presided over by senior judge Jack Weinstein; but nothing has been ...

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... 1965 with more than 120,000 people taking part. Opposition increased even more in 1967 when Martin Luther King jumped on the bandwagon and 200,000 people demonstrated in New York. Tax rises and draft cards really peeved many people. $1 million of damage was caused outside the pentagon in protests. Many influential TV stations and newspapers started to oppose the war ... being shot in the head by a US general was seen by over 20 million people on TV which led to widespread disgust as well as the destruction of the ancient city of Hue which people felt was unnecessary. The offensive was h...

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... the Vietnam War. Going south to Atlanta was an eye opener to the oppression and Jim Crow south were he was not in his environment of the north in New York City. He was not concerned that he would be working at a Negro school, but it was just another job that paid the bills. He did not go there expecting to play ... ...

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Why We Are Not Beyond Vietnam On April 4, 1967 clergy and laymen assembled at Riverside Church in New York City. Addressing the concerned congregation about the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence". Martin Luther King started his oration with a direct ... ...

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