people that did not like McNamara and put his job into perspective. I think that if McNamara was still alive he would still get a lot of the same questions that he got asked throughout his career. He went through 1945 bombing of Tokyo‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ and President Kennedy’s suggestions to the Secretary that the U.S. remove itself from Vietnam. I think that my number one question for him would be: Didn’t you get tired of being involved and having such a huge role in the future of the United
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1. As Charlie Duke‚ an astronaut on the Apollo 16 mission said‚ “We have been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times‚ if we faked it?" It is a pertinent question and it does seem that if you are going to tell a lie‚ it is far easier to do it once and then stop‚ than to keep exaggerating the lie over the course of the next few years. Sooner or later somebody would have made a mistake to give the game away. The fact that nobody did‚ again‚ illustrates the fact that indeed‚ these astronauts
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doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02212.x Dunne tells the history leading to the invasion of Cuba by mercenaries and concludes with the impact that the Bay of Pigs had on relations between the U.S. Cuba and the Soviet Union. Friedman‚ R.R. (2011). Crisis management at the dead center: The 1960-1961 presidential transition and the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Presidential Studies Quarterly‚ 41(2)‚ 307-333. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2011.03856.x Friedman makes an interesting correlation between times of presidential
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What made JFK’s Inaugural Address so effective? Logos of customers who have attended courses Email Newsletter icon‚ E-mail Newsletter icon‚ Email List icon‚ E-mail List icon Sign up for our Email Newsletter FREE weekly newsletter with presentation tips‚ humor‚ quotes & anecdotes you can use in your very next speech or presentation. Simply place your email address in the box on the left and press ’GO’. If anyone ever tells you that speeches don’t make a difference‚ point them at JFK’s
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In the documentary Fog of War‚ former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara names eleven lessons he feels he has learned about war during the course of his life. They all come with a certain amount of merit‚ but the three that stand out the most are Lesson #1: empathize with your enemy‚ Lesson #4: maximize efficiency‚ and Lesson #9: in order to do good‚ you may have to engage in evil. Overall‚ these lessons are the most difficult to both execute in war and explain to the American public while simultaneously
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policy. Bibliography with at least three sources. OPTION #2 1. Choose a major US diplomatic crisis to review. After some research‚ write a 2-page on the crisis. Focus on how the U.S. State Department worked to diffuse the crisis. 2. Possible examples of crises to be reported on include: Iran-Hostage Crisis‚ 1979 Bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut‚ Lebanon in 1982. WikiLeaks Crisis‚ 2010. Ax Murder Incident‚ Korean Demilitarized Zone‚ 1976. U.S.S. Pueblo Incident‚ 1968. Berlin
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The ‘60s was an eventful decade for the American public. Civil Rights‚ Hippies‚ Vietnam‚ the Apollo missions‚ The Cuban Missile Crisis‚ Student Protests culminated a decade that had some reasons to please‚ but many more to annoy. In the backdrop to all this chaos‚ Stanley Kubrick directed and produced Dr. Strangelove‚ a satirical film on the threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dr. Strangelove‚ one of Stanley Kubrick’s great directorial ventures‚ was released
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The scarcity of objective information about Cleopatra has allowed poetic licence for each generation to interpret her story as it sees fit‚ reflecting the changes in society’s view of women‚ together with the preoccupations of each period. Cleopatra (1934) starred Claudette Colbert in a reprise of her previous romantic-comedy roles: lightweight‚ flirtatious and funny but this time in a revealing historical costume. The emphasis is on her romantic liaisons with Caesar and Antony rather than
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serve his beloved country is right around the corner. Entering most arguable the hardest branch in the military‚ the marines‚ is also another feat that will show just how mentally and physically ready he is. Joining the marines right before the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ he was at the most intense part of the Cold War. At the blink of an eye‚ America could be engaged in nuclear
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How did the Cold War affect domestic policy and American Society? The late 1940′s were a time when much change happened to the American society. As a result to the expanding threat of the Soviet Union‚ or its Communistic ideals‚ America took a stand that lead it to the Cold War. Although the war didn’t involve fighting directly with Russia‚ it still affected the American society and domestic policy. The war affected America so much that it lead to a fear of livelihood; precisely when Joseph McCarthy
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