Navy Commander, Journalist, Backs Kerry on Vietnam
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An American journalist who  commanded a boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a  35-year silence on Saturday and defended the Democratic  presidential candidate against Republican critics of his  military service.
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US Sen. John Kerry, aging naval officer from the Vietnam War, wants voters to view him as a decorated veteran. However, he is under intense enemy fire in a modern-day war -- one for the US presidency -- and
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BOSTON - Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do his dirty work."   Defending his record, the Democratic presidential candidate said, "Thirty years ago, official Navy reports documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts."  "Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth...
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The controversy over the Vietnam war record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has trained a fresh light on one of that conflict's lesser-known episodes &#151; the operations of America's "Brown Water Navy" in rivers, canals and mangrove swamps of the Mekong Delta.
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A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on PBS&#39; &#39;&#39;Newshour&#39;&#39; explaining why the hundreds of swift boat veterans&#39; allegations against John Kerry&#39;s conduct in Vietnam was unworthy of his attention.
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The New York Times, one of America's most influential newspapers, on Sunday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry as a potentially "great chief executive."
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John Kerry offers his service in Vietnam as proof that he can keep America safe. But in two TV ads and a best-selling book, an anti-Kerry group has accused the Senator of dishonesty and cowardice during the war.
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When asked whom they would trust as commander in chief, people in military service and their families chose President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, by almost a 3-to-1 margin.
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The chief financial backer of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and its television ad challenging Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military record is a wealthy Texas homebuilder known for his deep pockets and aversion to the limelight.
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WASHINGTON - One of the men who helped put Democrat John Kerry on the defensive over his military record during the Vietnam war is answering questions about his own service during that conflict.    During an Oval Office conversation in 1971, John O'Neill tells President Nixon he was in Cambodia in a swift boat during the war - a claim that is at odds with O'Neill's recent statements that he wasn't in the country...
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John Kerry on Tuesday firmly defended his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War, saying when the United States was in moral crisis over the conflict in the1970s "I stood up and was counted."
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Retired Gen. Tommy Franks, producer of the early military successes in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Sunday that criticism of John Kerry's war record is political hyperbole and Kerry is "absolutely" qualified to be commander in chief.
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John Kerry's former crew mates vouch for his Vietnam war heroics in a documentary being released in the midst of a campaign debate about his actions as a swift boat skipper.
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A Navy report filed five days after a disputed incident in Vietnam supports John Kerry's version and contradicts critics who say the Democratic presidential nominee never came under enemy gunfire when he won two medals.
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NEW YORK - A top adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he talked to a central figure in the controversy about President Bush&#39;s National Guard service at the suggestion of a CBS News producer shortly before disputed documents were
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An American journalist who commanded a boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence on Saturday and defended the Democratic presidential candidate against Republican critics of his military service.
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Jim Rassmann, saved by John Kerry after being blown off Kerry&#39;s boat during a 1969 Vietnam firefight, said Friday a Sinclair Broadcast documentary critical of Kerry&#39;s