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Don richie, you brought ari book with you called vietnam hearings. What was this book . This book was printed in 1966. Its 50 years old. It was a book i used when i was teaching a course on American History in the 1960s. I was at the university of maryland and we used this book because it was exsermts of hearings that senator fulbright convened on the vietnam war in 1966 and it was the proponents, the supporters of the war, people like dean dusk and general Maxwell Taylor aopponens of the war like general james gavin. And they were being interrogated by senators who were on both sides of the w...

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The great tragedies of american kennan that cannon was not listened to by the policymakers in 1960 when we. Ecided to go to war jamesired army general gavin presents his views on the vietnam war. This was broadcast of your he 8,e, broadcast february 1966. He was the only general to parachute four times with his troops in combat. He was u. S. Ambassador to france for the first two years of the kennedy administration. This is the first 70 minutes of hearing. Day within of the the Eisenhower Administration over possible United States involvement. He served under general ridgeway then army chief o...