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Context: Sure, all 3 get that credit!

Kennedy’s starting point was Cold War communism containment. LBJ’s was deadman walking for leaning on McNamara and Westmoreland.

It’s Nixon that bothers me the most for his unfathomable selfishness and quest for power juxtaposed to the est 20-30k estimated unfortunate sons souls lost subsequent to his interference in his 1968 presidential campaign that sought to discourage South Vietnam from participating in peace talks before the election. And his 1970s delay for peace for reelection and Cambodia policies.

Unfathomable to me how selfish political power works. Destructive to a nation how all of the above portrayed publicly optimism for success while privately seeing evidence quite to the contrary.

Nixon, in particular, taught me that enemies sometimes wear the same uniform. I want to believe the U.S. wears the white cowboy hat. Vietnam era / politics, in particular, tainted that.

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hat is a good point, although i dont see wall street colluding with OPEC but ya never know

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Why does it seem like the 200th anniversary was so much of a bigger deal? Like the 250th anniversary seems to be barely a bigger deal than the 249th or 248th anniversary.

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