Saturday, November 13, 1982

1982: The Vietnam War Memorial Wall


On this day in 1982, the Vietnam War Memorial Wall went up in Washington DC.   It was a tribute to the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict.  The names of the men are arranged in order of death.

It is an amazing place to visit, specially for those who remember that very controversial war.

My favorite book about the Vietnam War was written by President Nixon in 1983 after leaving office.

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Thursday, October 07, 1982

Cuba and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates

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My late father would often speak about the Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960. 
Like he told me, many Cubans listened to that debate very carefully on the radio.  It was broadcast to Cuba on short wave radio, perhaps Voice of America or some other frequency.
By the summer of 1960, Cuba was in rebellion against the Castro regime.  
Cubans were asking these questions:  What happened to the elections?  Why are all of those Soviets landing at the airport?  Why are Cuban owned businesses “nationalized”?  Why is every regime critic called a CIA operative?  Why so many political arrests?  Why were newspapers shut down?   
“In the second of four televised debates, Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon turn their attention to foreign policy issues.
Three Cold War episodes, in particular, engendered spirited confrontations between Kennedy and Nixon.
The first involved Cuba, which had recently come under the control of Fidel Castro.
Nixon argued that the island was not “lost” to the United States, and that the course of action followed by the Eisenhower administration had been the best one to allow the Cuban people to “realize their aspirations of progress through freedom.”
Kennedy fired back that it was clear that Castro was a communist, and that the Republican administration failed to use U.S. resources effectively to prevent his rise to power.
He concluded that, “Today Cuba is lost for freedom.””
A few months after inauguration, President Kennedy dropped the ball at The Bay of Pigs.   On December 2nd, Castro announced that he had always been a “Marxist Lennist”!   In one year, Cuba went from being a topic at the debate to a Soviet satellite and a headache for the US.
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Tuesday, October 05, 1982

We remember Vaclac Havel (1936-2011)


We remember Vaclav Havel who was born in Prague on this day in 1936.  He died in 2011 and left an incredible legacy.

This is a bit from The New York Sun:

"The long, twilight struggle against the communist tyranny at Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe and at the Soviet Union had many heroes, on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Yet it is hard to think of any more unifying, dignified, cheerful, enduring, or consequential than the playwright turned president, who turned a protest against the suppression of a rock band into a movement that inspired and changed the world."

Some of us take political debate and dissent for granted.  We assume that everyone in the world has that right or opportunity.

Havel is one of those men who risked everything to express his thoughts or to write his opinions.  We are grateful that men like Havel come around and remind us that freedom is worth standing up for.

We spoke about Havel with Jorge Ponce a few years ago.

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Sunday, August 29, 1982

We remember Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)


The beautiful and talented Ingrid Bergman was born on August 29, 1915 and died on the same day in 1982.   

Her film debut was David O. Selznick’s Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939).  In 1942, she made "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart.   Then came "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1943 and few others.  


Her movies were great!   Watch one today.

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Sunday, August 01, 1982

1982: Aaron & Robinson Hall of Fame

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On August 1, 1982, Frank Robinson and Hank Aaron went into The Hall of Fame.  They were two of the greatest players of the post-war era.  
Robinson and Aaron broke into the majors in the 1950's.    
Robinson finished his career with a .294 average, 586 HR and 1,812 RBI.    He won the 1961 NL MVP and 1966 AL MVP.   He played in 5 World Series, 1 with the Reds and 4 with the Orioles.    
Aaron left the game with a .305 batting average, 755 HR, 2,297 RBI & 3,771 hits.   He was the 1957 NL MVP or the same year that the Braves won the World Series.    
Aaron and Robinson, two of my favorites! 
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Saturday, March 20, 1982

John Wayne and "El Dorado"

It's time to watch another John Wayne movie.    

"El Dorado" is from 1966 and it includes Robert Mitchum and James Caan.   In this movie, Wayne plays a gunfighter who gets in the middle of a fight over water.

It is a good movie.   Wayne is "Cowboy # 1" in my book.   

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Saturday, February 13, 1982

Valentine's Day 2019 with Leslie Eastman & Aaron Clarey


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Valentine's Day with Leslie Eastman & Aaron Clarey 02/14 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics Podcasts:

Guests: Leslie Eastman and Aaron Clarey......We will look at the issues of the day....... and other stories.......click to listen:

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Tuesday, January 19, 1982

We remember Robert E Lee (1807-70)

We remember Robert E. Lee who was born on this day in 1807.   He died in 1870, or a few years after The Civil War.

Lee was a distinguished military man and West Point graduate. He was a man of great character and accomplishment.   

In 1865, General Lee surrendered because he understood that his side had lost and wanted to avoid more bloodshed.
  
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Sunday, January 10, 1982

1982: "The catch" that broke lots of Cowboys' hearts!


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It happened one Sunday afternoon in January 1982 or the drive that set up "The catch" that put San Francisco in The Super Bowl.   The final score was 27-26.

It may have been the end of the line for those Cowboys' teams of the 1970's. The Cowboys played in one more NFC championship game under Landry in 1983.  They lost to Washington and that was pretty much the end of Landry's post season teams.

Dallas did not play in another NFC title until they met the same SF in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
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1982: Montana to Clark and "the catch" that broke so many Cowboys' hearts!

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It happened on this day in 1982 and it is still one of the biggest plays in NFL history.   

Yes, "the catch" broke many Cowboys' hearts but it was an amazing play.

The 49ers were driving to score.   They started at their own 11 and down 27-21.  Montana drove the team down to the Dallas' 6 yard line.   It was 3rd and 3 and SF had to score because a field goal would not have not a difference, i.e. Dallas would run out of the clock.

Montana moved to the right, threw the ball in the end zone and Clark jumped and made the catch.    

And they've called it "the catch" ever since!

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