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William Westmoreland

"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"

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"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"

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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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