241. The Carter Administration and Latin America: A Test of Principle
- Author:
- Robert Pastor
- Publication Date:
- 07-1992
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Carter Center
- Abstract:
- Within a single year, two events unprecedented in the history of the United States shook the nation's confidence in itself as the moral leader of the Free World. In August 1974, the president resigned under a pall of scandal, and eight months later, the United States suffered the humiliation of military defeat as it watched the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam fold the American flag under his arm and flee his post by helicopter.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights
- Political Geography:
- United States, Vietnam, South America, Latin America, Central America, Caribbean, and North America