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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
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"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."
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"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble."
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"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."
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"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."
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"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
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"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
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"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"History is more or less bunk."
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"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
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"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."
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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
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"The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history."
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