Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... From current point of view advocated by many people including myself, War was terrible mistake and it cannot be justified. ... During cold war world split into two blocks, each of them maintaining existing order and recruit new members. ... "In Vietnam, the last sustained war the nation fought, the United States spent $111 billion during the eight years of the war, from 1964 to 1972. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam W...

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Both candidates were concerned about the growing violence that was in response to the war and the fight for civil rights in the country. ... Wallace, on the other hand called for a victory in Vietnam, this would be important and split the votes. ... During the election race, McCarthy would be most concerned with the war in Vietnam, calling it illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. ... His main points in his campaign would be, civil rights, poverty, and the war. ... Sadly, once Kennedy died, the people who fought for civil rights in America had no one to lead them in their crusade for equa...

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In the first three days during X-ray seventy-eight Americans lost their lives, one hundred and twenty one were wounded with zero MIA. ... Secretary of State Robert Lansing on June 18, 1919, he was looking for help in freeing his people from French colonial domination after the First World War. ... Once again America had just finished a great war in which France was an important ally. ... It is important to remember that the leaders at this time thought they were doing the right thing. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United State...

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Politics played an important role of his growing up. ... His most important era in his presidentency (1963-1968) was his progress of Civil Rights for blacks. ... The American people were outraged by this increase. ... We assume that during those talks Hanoi will not take advantage of our restraint. ... What we won when all of our people united must not now be last in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of out people. ...

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Kerry, a veteran of the war, and Martin Luther King, a mature civil rights activist. ... King speaks of civil right unparticular. ... Potter raises the important question about "what the war has done for freedom in America?" ... There are students who are protesting for better educations, African Americans who are struggling for civil rights, poor people who are trying to abolish poverty and secure democracy, and more importantly there are faculty members who are questioning the importance of their institutions to the critical problems that our society is facing during this time (846). ... ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... Because of the youths' great desire to achieve a universal sense of peace and harmony, drugs were sometimes a very important part of one's life. ... s were controlled by the drugs and the drugs' effects than by the people themselves. ... Here people would just line the streets with drug use, sex, and wild music. ... During the several days of music, sex and ...

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He was also the maker of its most important legislative achievements and a factor in its ultimate demise... At Cotulla, he saw poverty and hatred; later he said, "Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scares on the face of a young child"(Schulman 9) He never did, and during his Presidency he waged a nation changing "war on poverty." ... The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. Second, it developed a new "vision of democracy," during this time it developed pluralist politics. ... Combin...

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For example, during the middle ages people believed that the earth was flat with no scientific facts or observations. ... Wilder's way of thinking is very important point within the book. ... Hartke advocates the same deception about the lies said by the government during the Vietnam War. ... He was killing people to garner attention for the war yet people did not truly understand what was really going on. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was the most influential civil rights leader in America. ...

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Rather an incorrect study of the Vietnam situation: wrongly identifying it with the previous Korean dilemma and the overall attitudes of indiscriminate fear of any communist movement, regardless of circumstances, prevailed over American foreign policy and helped begin an ill-advised escalation of American involvement into the Vietnamese civil war. ... The role of Communism was extremely important in this conflict. ... During the war with the French, Ho Chi Minh took shelter in northern Vietnam and settled there with his followers. ... ilitary throughout the war. ... The United States and some ...

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They must be able to deliver people, equipment and weapons with precision. ... People ask you so often, God, for all that, that you cannot have any left. ... Give me what people refuse to accept from you. ... The Green Berets were used heavily during the Vietnam Conflict. ... Terrorism began to play an important roll in forcing a change in priorities. ...

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