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Article: The founding father with a story to tell.(Nation)(Pruden On Politics)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2000
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NEW YORK CITY. - Some of us can't get used to the fact that the Vietnam war, the defining moment in the lives of a generation now feeling old and going gray, is already grist for the historians.
Only yesterday the Americans stood almost alone in Asia, athwart the spreading tide of communism and trying to save freedom for the South Vietnamese - and for Southeast Asia.
Almost alone, but not quite. The other allies, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines, had reluctantly succumbed to LBJ's arm-twisting and seemed not quite sure they were in on an honorable cause.
One strong voice, not as an ally with troops on the ...