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Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle…
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After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born…
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Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
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During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important…
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From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
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By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
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South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As…
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By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
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We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
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I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by…
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough…
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a…
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost…
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I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think…
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as…
— John Cleese
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Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned…
— Susan Sarandon
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It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as…
— Francesca Annis
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who…
— Bobby Fischer
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My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated…
— Dylan McDermott
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You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the…
— Cybill Shepherd
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Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was…
— Rik Mayall
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody…
— Miles Davis
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