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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Nixon's War on Vietnam
President Johnson ordered all Americans home from Vietnam by 1965 with the first thousand coming on by December, 63. But in November, he of course just before that evacuation began, he was killed. And then a year after that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, we sent 250,000 which is what they wanted my uncle to do which he refused. Then it became an American war and then Nixon topped it off at 560,000. 56,000 Americans never came home, including my cousin George Skakele who died at the Tet Offensive.
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