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November 21, 2017

United States
TWE Remembers: General Westmoreland Says the “End Begins to Come Into View” in Vietnam

Never overpromise and under deliver. General William Westmoreland should have followed that advice when he addressed the National Press Club fifty years ago today. Instead, the commanding general of …

Westmoreland

August 1, 2022

United States
The Perils of the Midterms: For Both Parties, and for the United States’ Political Future

Republicans and Democrats are at risk of taking the wrong messages from November, putting U.S. politics in an even worse place

City employees set up voting booths the day before primary elections in Birmingham, Michigan

March 3, 2015

United States
The Ten Best Memoirs of the Vietnam War

Yesterday, I posted my picks for the best histories of the Vietnam War. While those books all provide excellent analyses of the war, another way to understand U.S. involvement in Vietnam is through t…

Vietnam-War-Memoirs

October 20, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five)

Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban …

The day book of Evelyn Lincoln, President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary, shows JFK's busy schedule during the Cuban missile crisis. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts)

March 16, 2017

Diplomacy and International Institutions
International Studies Association Panel: Inequality and the Rise of Authoritarianism

As part of CFR’s Academic Outreach Initiative, I recently had the privilege of moderating a panel on inequality and the rise of authoritarianism with Jack A. Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel …

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