Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Gulf of Tonkin incident" ¶ 41
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Stockdale and wrote
During the following two decades, Stockdale wrote a number of books both on his experiences during the Vietnam War and afterwards.
Before publication, Wilson and publisher John Joseph Stockdale wrote to all those named in the book offering them the opportunity to be excluded from the work in exchange for a cash payment.
Stockdale wrote a Letter to Granville Sharp, suggested by the present Insurrection of the Negros in the Island of St. Domingo in 1791.
Sybil Stockdale co-wrote a memoir with her husband James ( who also wrote a number of books on his own ).
In the book James and Sybil Stockdale wrote alternating chapters describing their experiences of the Vietnam war, James wrote of his experiences as a POW, and Sybil wrote of her experiences as the wife of a POW, dealing with the stress and waiting at home and her journey cutting through Washington red tape and publicizing the plight of American POWs in Vietnam.

Stockdale and book
In a business book by James C. Collins called Good to Great, Collins writes about a conversation he had with Stockdale regarding his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp.
The following book is based on the series of lectures delivered for the course in moral philosophy established at the Naval War College by Admiral Stockdale in 1978, when Stockdale was president of the college.
Stockdale is also the co-author, along with her late husband, of the book " In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam War ".

Stockdale and Love
Alexander's other television films include Arthur Miller's Playing for Time, co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, for which Alexander won another Emmy Award ; Malice in Wonderland ( as famed gossip-monger Hedda Hopper ); Blood & Orchids ; and In Love and War ( 1987 ) co-starring James Woods, which tells the story of James and Sybil Stockdale during Stockdale's eight years as a US Navy Commander and prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Stockdale and War
The philosophy of Epictetus is well known in the American military through the writings and example of James Stockdale, an American fighter pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam, became a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and later a vice presidential candidate.
Stockdale as president of the Naval War College in 1979
Recognized by his captors as the leader in the Prisoners ' of War resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate in propaganda exploitation, Rear Adm. Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture after he was detected in a covert communications attempt.
Sybil Stockdale was the wife of an American Vietnam War Navy pilot who became a prisoner of war.

Stockdale and had
This was in part the outcome of discussions Wolfe had with James Stockdale ( see above ).
Having assumed office, the need for such action was justified when Kennett and his new Treasurer Alan Stockdale discovered that the outgoing government had left them with $ 2. 2 billion budget deficit, a net public sector debt of $ 33 billion and budget sector debt of $ 16 billion.
Flying from USS Oriskany on a mission over North Vietnam on September 9, 1965, Stockdale ejected from his Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which had been disabled from friendly fire after the malfunction of his wingman's ordnance.
Stockdale filed charges against two other officers who, he felt, had given aid and comfort to the enemy.
On March 30, 1992, Perot announced that he had asked Stockdale to be his provisional Vice Presidential nominee on Ross Perot's 1992 independent ticket.
Bruno had asked Stockdale, " Admiral Stockdale, your opening statement, please, sir?
As his introduction to the large segment of American voters who had not previously heard of him, the debate was disastrous for Stockdale.
Sensing the start of another purge, and aware that his earlier efforts at self-disfiguration to dissuade his captors from exploiting him for propaganda purposes had resulted in cruel and agonizing punishment, Rear Adm. Stockdale resolved to make himself a symbol of resistance regardless of personal sacrifice.
According to Stockdale he had trouble gaining the support of his own party ; at the 22 – 24 October Kadet fall conference provincial delegates " lashed out at Miliukov with unaccustomed ferocity.
By 1856, Stockdale had moved to Calhoun County, which he represented in the Texas Senate from 1857 to 1861.
Stockdale had served Texas during very troubling times.
Stockdale tells Ben Whitledge, ( Nick Adams ) " Irving, he had ROTC.
Despite conceding five goals in four league games, losing his place to Stockdale, he had his loan extended until the end of the season.

Stockdale and best
Perot and Stockdale received 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, one of the best showings by an independent ticket in U. S. electoral history, although they did not carry any states.
As a judge he is best remembered for his decision in the important privilege case of Stockdale v. Hansard ( 9 Ad.

Stockdale and house
The house was built on land bought from the Duke of Rutland for the Stockdale family, benefactors to the village, whose name is commemorated by the Stockdale Institute, now the Village Hall, and by a memorial in the church to the Rev.
Dixie's boss is Barney Stockdale, and he must somehow be connected with the Harrow Weald case, of which Holmes has just learnt from a message from Mary Maberley, a lady who lives at Three Gables, a house at Harrow Weald.

Stockdale and event
Stockdale was not informed that he would be participating in the October 13 vice-presidential debate held in Atlanta, Georgia, until a week before the event.
The practice has been documented as having been introduced to the National Western Stock Show at least by the 1980s when an event was sponsored by Nancy Stockdale Cervi, a former rodeo queen.

Stockdale and were
During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.
Future U. S. Vice Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U. S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there.
Tin stated that there were " a few physical hits like a slap across the face, or threats, in order to obtain the specific confessions ," and that the worst that especially resistant prisoners such as Stockdale and Jeremiah Denton encountered was being confined to small cells.
Early in Stockdale's captivity, his wife, Sybil Stockdale, organized The League of American Families of POWs and MIAs, with other wives of servicemen who were in similar circumstances.
In a 1999 interview with Jim Lehrer, Stockdale explained that the statements were intended as an introduction of himself and his personal history to the television audience:
Two men in the lead the troop commander Captain Pettiward and Lieutenant McDonald were killed while Troop Sergeant Major Stockdale was wounded.
The grand Victorian building, designed by Stockdale Harrison ( city architect in 1890 ) and beautifully decorated beam engines were a cause of great civic pride.

Stockdale and just
Leading British textile manufacturers included Stead McAlpin, Alexander Morton and AH Lee, Turnbull & Stockdale and Liberty, to name just a few.

Stockdale and shooting
By 1947, when the surrounding Delnadamph estate was bought by Sir Edmund and Lady Stockdale, the castle was an empty ruin, used only for occasional shooting lunches within the curtain walls.

1.188 seconds.