Among other things, the Pentagon Papers document the activities of sabotage and terror warfare against North Vietnam beginning in 1954 and the moves that encouraged and influenced the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. ... A second major segment of the Johnson administration's covert war against North Vietnam was air operations in Laos, where a force of propeller-driven North American T-28 fighter-bombers had been organized. ... In airborne operations, five teams and a single agent were in place at the beginning of October. ... Was the clandestine war of 1964 o...

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The US policy since the beginning of the Cold War had been containment of Communist aggression and advances. ... During the war with the French, Ho Chi Minh took shelter in northern Vietnam and settled there with his followers. ... ilitary throughout the war. ... Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. ... The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into a limited international conflict. ...

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The best thing my dad remembers about the war is how beautiful Vietnam was. ... "It was like the last day of school" he said; "it was the end of one training and the beginning of another and I was anxious to move on". ... Also since Vietnam was over, there was no negative media coverage or anti-war protesting anymore. ... My father didn't return home right after Vietnam, he was sent to Africa after a short R&R, so he didn't see how the American people booed the returning veterans from the war. ... My father's last quote about Vietnam was, "Except for the war, Vietnam was beaut...

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