We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
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Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
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Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos.… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
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The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“General Lawton Collins, a top American adviser, said that the United States must "put the squeeze on the French to get them… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
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