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| The Not-So-Good War | |
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| Discovering Vietnam | |
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| Why Vietnam? | |
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| Saigon Is Not a Detroit Suburb | |
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| A Short History of French Rule | |
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| The First Cold War | |
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| Parlez-vous Francais? | |
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| Vietnam for the Vietnamese | |
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| Just Shoot Me | |
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| Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh | |
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| A George Washington for Vietnam | |
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| The Influence of Phan Boi Chau | |
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| A Legend Begins | |
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| Nationalism, Communism, Opportunism | |
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| The Real Ho Chi Minh | |
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| Ho and Lenin | |
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| The RYL | |
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| Ho's Hong Kong Honeymoon and Hoover's Depression | |
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| The Hong Kong Platform | |
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| The American Home Front | |
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| The Arrest of a Radical | |
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| Franklin Roosevelt--A Ho Chi Minh for America? | |
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| As the World Turns | |
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| Uncle Ho Meets Uncle Sam | |
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| Ho Gets Charisma | |
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| Let's Dance! Ho Chi Minh and Franklin Roosevelt | |
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| The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? | |
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| Free Vietnam! | |
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| Eleanor Does Vietnam? | |
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| Ho Meets Harry | |
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| Thirty Years War, Act One | |
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| Harry, Goofy, and Dewey | |
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| Truman and Chiang | |
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| Report from Vietnam | |
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| Gone with the Wind and Brother Charles | |
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| France Fights the Last War | |
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| The French Offensive | |
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| An Appeal to America | |
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| Destiny at Dienbienphu | |
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| Why Dominoes Are Scary | |
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| Ferreting Out the Red Menace | |
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| Un-American Affairs | |
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| "The Forgotten War" Not Forgotten | |
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| Foolish Frenchmen | |
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| Dienbienphu | |
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| France Folds | |
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| This Is the End | |
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| How to Make a Quagmire | |
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| Thirty Years War, Act Two | |
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| The Bao Dai Boogie | |
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| The Geneva Conference | |
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| Enter Bao Dai | |
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| The Violence Continues | |
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| Our Man Diem | |
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| Lightning Joe and Colonel Ed | |
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| A New, Sexy Profile | |
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| Kings of Corruption | |
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| Don't You Trust Them Commies! | |
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| All in the Family | |
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| The Can Lao | |
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| The New South Vietnam | |
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| Ho the Terrorist | |
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| SEATO | |
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| Why Americans Are "Ugly" | |
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| The Quiet American | |
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| The Good America | |
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| Where Are Ye, Ho? | |
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| The Military-Industrial Complex | |
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| Won't You Play with Me? | |
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| Getting It Together in South Vietnam | |
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| Spontaneous Uprisings | |
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| NLF Reforms | |
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| Laos and Vietnam | |
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| Phouma, Phoui, and Phoumi | |
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| The Commies Creep Closer | |
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| A Statesman to the Rescue? | |
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| Enter the New Frontier | |
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| Can't You See That Big Red "S" Under My Shirt? | |
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| Kennedy's Presidential Bid | |
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| Kennedy's Can-Do Team | |
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| Getting the Job Done | |
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| Where Is "Layous?" | |
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| Who Will Rid Me of This Troublesome Man? | |
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| Diem's Weaknesses | |
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| Losing Diem | |
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| The American Lake | |
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| Johnson's Inheritance | |
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| So You Want to Be a Millionaire? | |
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| Dollars and Sense | |
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| The New Pacific Community | |
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| Please Speak Japanese, If You Please | |
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| Brother Bobby and Vietnam | |
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| Brother Teddy and Vietnam | |
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| The Copy Machine Breaks Down | |
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| The Other Vietnam? | |
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| Down with Sukarno | |
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| Sukarno and the Dutch | |
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| "Guided Democracy" | |
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| The West Irian Problem | |
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| American Charisma Meets Indonesian Charisma | |
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| Stumbling Blocks to Peace | |
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| The Pope Case | |
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| Vietnam War or Indonesia War? | |
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| A War in Vietnam Is Good Enough for Me | |
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| Excalation | |
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| Holding the Beachhead | |
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| Legend Sounds Better Than Fact | |
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| Myths and Reality | |
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| Complexity and Contradiction | |
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| Ho Gets Ready | |
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| America Tries to Get Ready | |
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| Murmurs in the Pacific | |
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| Johnson Visits the Pacific | |
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| Vacation in Vietnam | |
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| War Can Ruin a Good Night's Sleep | |
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| All the Way with LBJ | |
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| America Goes to the Dogs? | |
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| LBJ, Texas Populist | |
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| Texas Politics | |
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| Johnson's Rising Star | |
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| Beating Kennedys | |
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| The Wicked Truth | |
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| Throwing Out the Leftovers | |
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| Westmoreland to the Rescue | |
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| ARVN on the Ropes | |
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| Uncle Lyndon, Your Good Buddy | |
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| Thirty Years War, Act Three | |
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| World War II Commitment? | |
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| Controversy in the Tonkin Gulf | |
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| The "Facts" | |
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| Stepping Carefully | |
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| The Tonkin Gulf Resolution | |
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| "Grandma's Nightshirt" | |
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| The Two Dissenters | |
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| Mr. Right Meets Landslide Lyndon | |
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| Death in Pleiku | |
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| Big Minh and the Wrath of Khanh | |
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| A Doubting Nelson | |
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| Terror at the Brinks Hotel | |
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| Pleiku, My Old Country Home | |
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| Pleiku Is Vietnamese for Alamo | |
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| The White House Strikes Back | |
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| Springtime in Vietnam | |
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| March to Victory? | |
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| Guns and Butter | |
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| The Early Opposition Speaks | |
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| Westmoreland Asks for More | |
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| High Tech vs. Low Tech | |
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| Who Should We Bomb Today? | |
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| What's Happened to the Bad Guys? | |
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| The Young Turks and the Search for Victory | |
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| Ky Is the Key? | |
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| "Many Flags" | |
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| Like a ROK | |
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| What Are Friends For? | |
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| Victory Under the Palms | |
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| The Dominican Republic Invasion | |
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| A Hint of Things to Come? | |
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| No Light in the Tunnel | |
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| Question Authority | |
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| Those Good Old Days | |
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| As American as Apple Pie | |
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| Tom Hayden | |
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| Of Weathermen and Hippies | |
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| Fulbright vs. Johnson | |
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| Endless War | |
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| The Art of Lying | |
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| Hubert's "Great Adventure" | |
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| The Government Has Two Faces | |
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| Westmoreland on Capitol Hill | |
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| A National Election | |
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| Winning and Losing at the Same Time | |
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| "On the Run" | |
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| Seesaw Campaigns | |
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| Victory Nears? | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| The Big "Showdown" | |
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| America Is Surprised | |
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| The Horror Show | |
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| Turning Points | |
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| Landslide Lyndon Retires | |
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| The Battling Democrats and Campaign '68 | |
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| Getting "Clean for Gene" | |
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| The Rise of McCarthy | |
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| New Hampshire Speaks | |
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| Rough Road Ahead | |
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| What About George? | |
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| Good Bobby, Evil Hubert, and a November Defeat | |
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| Thirty Years War, the Final Act | |
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| You Can Trust "Tricky Dicky" | |
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| Henry the K. and Vietnamization | |
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| Henry Kissinger | |
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| Vietnamization | |
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| The Protestors vs. the Great Silent Majority | |
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| "Vietnamization" in Action | |
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| Hamburger Hill | |
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| Publicizing Vietnamization | |
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| A Legend Is Born | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| Things Keep Falling Apart | |
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| Spiro Agnew | |
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| The My Lai Debate | |
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| Flash Dance in Cambodia | |
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| "Patton" Blunders | |
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| The Kent State Tragedy | |
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| A Warning Shot from Congress | |
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| Watergate | |
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| Laos and the Uneasy Calm | |
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| Daniel Ellsberg Feels Your Pain | |
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| I'm the President, and You're Not | |
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| From Quang Tri to Watergate | |
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| McGovern | |
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| "Tricky Dicky" Takes a Hike | |
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| Defeat and Renewal | |
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| Coming Home | |
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| Let's Go to China | |
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| Let's Go to Paris | |
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| Christmas Bombs Bring a New Year's Peace | |
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| The "Decent Interval" Begins | |
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| A Ford, Not a Lincoln | |
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| The Fall of Saigon | |
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| Final Days | |
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| Chaos Rules | |
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| Thieu's Suspicions | |
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| You Storm, I'll Drizzle | |
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| The War Powers Act | |
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| Bad Days for Henry | |
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| Don't Forget the Flag | |
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| Hollywood Goes to Vietnam | |
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| The Taboo Topic | |
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| Trailblazing Movies and TV | |
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| A Few Good Superheroes | |
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| Magnum, P.I. | |
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| Norris and Stallone | |
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| Francis and Oliver Go to Vietnam | |
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| The Road to Normalization | |
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| What Vietnam? | |
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| Jimmy Carter Looks for a Policy | |
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| Ronald Reagan Sees an "Evil Empire" | |
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| Bill Clinton Wants to Build an Embassy | |
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| Welcome Back to Vietnam | |
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| Pete Peterson, POW | |
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| Future Tense | |
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| Casualty Figures for the Vietnam War | |
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| Jarhead Jargon Glossary | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |