
Episode 845 - Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
The War on Vietnam
From Truman on Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, even Ford, they are making decisions about Vietnam that are influencing foreign policy and also military strategy. I mean, what to me is stunning is to hear Johnson's anguish and then hear the speech he gives the next day or the day before. And this one to sort of fix up this Vietnam problem and make it go away, essentially. We're playing a larger game. Right. And it's a China game and a Russia game, a Soviet Union game and a reelection game. This is old. This is done. It's over.
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