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Article: QUAYLE ISSUE RECALLS UNRESOLVED PAIN OF VIETNAM WAR ERA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1988
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WASHINGTON - The ghost of Vietnam cast a shroud over
Republican politics last week, but it was not only Indiana Sen. Dan
Quayle and the GOP delegates convening in New Orleans who were
haunted by it.
Quayle's admission he sought the assistance of an influential
family friend in his quest to get into the National Guard at the
height of the Vietnam War presented an opportunity for the entire
nation to confront again the ambiguities, deceits, anxieties, and
resentments of the ruptured era.
"The national life is definitely being dogged by the war,"
said author and editor Stewart Albert, an unindicted coconspirator
in the celebrated Chicago 7 trial that pitted the government
against ...