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Silent majority. The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. [ 1] The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised address on November 3, 1969, in which he said, "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ...
March 17 – a group of antiwar citizens marched to the Pentagon to protest American involvement in Vietnam. March 25 – Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the civil rights movement, led a march of 5,000 against the war in Chicago. April 4 – Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in New York City.
Additionally xenophobia towards the Vietnamese may extend from cultural, political or economic divisions, such as Vietnam being situated within the affected Global South (mostly developing countries) or anti-communists being hostile against Vietnamese communist rule. Vietnam is mostly Kinh majority, but is also a multiethnic country.
Beacon Journal readers write about VA clinic, ectopic pregnancy, Biden decision and Trump shooting.
The group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth challenged Kerry's decorated Vietnam War record. Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, led the Swift Boat campaign attacking Kerry in 2004.
2013 conviction of Vietnamese dissidents. On January 8–9, 2013 a trial was held by the People's Court of Nghệ An Province, Vietnam for 14 democracy activists, primarily belonging to the Catholic church, [1] including high-profile blogger Paulus Le Son. [2] [3] All of them were sentenced to 3–13 years in prison on charges of subversion. [4]
The North Vietnamese were moving towards taking up the "standstill ceasefire" offer and ordered the Viet Cong to seize as much territory as possible in preparation for a "leopard's spot" ceasefire (so called because the patchwork of territories controlled by the Viet Cong and the Saigon government resembled the spots on a leopard's fur). [91]
Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...