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Vietnam-era divisions still shaping politics, culture: Hess

Forty years ago, with the United States supporting a South Vietnamese government on the verge of collapse, incumbent President Lyndon Johnson campaigned as the peace candidate against Republican challenger Barry Goldwater.

“We don’t want our boys to fight for Asian boys,” said Johnson, but less than a year later, he took the country to war—a war so divisive that both supporters and opponents of the war in Iraq point to its lessons today.

Vietnam’s continuing legacy was Gary Hess’s topic for a Sept. 30 presentation in a packed Mylander Room in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. A Distinguished Research Professor of history, Hess is also currently a fellow at BGSU’s Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, which sponsored his lecture.

Vietnam was controversial from the beginning, and “the divisions still cut through American society,” said Hess, the author of several books and now working on another that traces and analyzes the 40-year debate.

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