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."It's the 50th anniversary. There's also some other anniversaries, if we went back 10 more years, to 1965. We would have the decision by Lyndon Johnson. Really a set of decisions but culminating in a decision. To make Vietnam a large scale war for the United States by introducing ground troops. And by launching the Air War 1965. Go back 10 more years, 1955, or let's say 1954 and 1955. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, choosing, to build up after the French had been defeated in the first so-called first Vietnam War, decision by President Eisenhower to build up and sustain a non-communist bastion in the southern part of Vietnam, a fateful decision, I think we can all agree. And then finally 10 more years before that, 1945. The end of the Second World War, at which point, France, having been humiliated by a defeat in 6 weeks at the hands of the Nazis, having lost Indochina to the Japanese, French officials decide in 1945 we're going to reclaim Indochina. And Vietnamese revolutionaries under Ho Chi Minh determined that's not going to happen. We're going to stop you from reclaiming Indochina.".[MEDIA=youtube]erf52WGnM4g[/MEDIA].
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"It's the 50th anniversary. There's also some other anniversaries, if we went back 10 more years, to 1965. We would have the decision by Lyndon Johnson. Really a set of decisions but culminating in a decision. To make Vietnam a large scale war for the United States by introducing ground troops. And by launching the Air War 1965. Go back 10 more years, 1955, or let's say 1954 and 1955. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, choosing, to build up after the French had been defeated in the first so-called first Vietnam War, decision by President Eisenhower to build up and sustain a non-communist bastion in the southern part of Vietnam, a fateful decision, I think we can all agree. And then finally 10 more years before that, 1945. The end of the Second World War, at which point, France, having been humiliated by a defeat in 6 weeks at the hands of the Nazis, having lost Indochina to the Japanese, French officials decide in 1945 we're going to reclaim Indochina. And Vietnamese revolutionaries under Ho Chi Minh determined that's not going to happen. We're going to stop you from reclaiming Indochina."
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