Telephone call between LBJ and Senator Richard Russell on May 27, 1964: <i>Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I&#039;d like to hear you talk a little bit. Russell: Well, frankly, Mr. President, if you were to tell me that I was authorized to settle as I saw fit, I would respectfully decline to undertake it. It&#039;s the damn worse mess that I ever saw, and I don&#039;t like to brag and I never have been right many times in my life, but I knew that we were gone to get into this sort of mess when we went in there. And I don&#039;t see how we&#039;re ever going to get out of it without fighting a major war with the Chinese and all of them down there in those rice paddies and jungles. I just don&#039;t see it. I just don&#039;t know what to do. Johnson: Well, that&#039;s the way I have been feeling for six months.</i> Transcript: <a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/a..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/lbj...">https://www.mtholyoke.edu/a... Audio: <a href="http://millercenter.org/pre..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exh...">http://millercenter.org/pre...
When we sang, &quot;<a href="https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php\?v=201674743217930" target="_blank">And it&#039;s 1, 2, 3 -- what are we fighting for?</a>&quot; nobody figured <a href="http:\/\/export.gov\/vietnam\/marketresearchonvietnam\/bestu.s.exportprospects\/index.asp" target="_blank"> this</a> would be the answer.
I wonder why it is the wingnutz don&#039;t love them some Ike, you&#039;d think he was their dream president ... Republican military commander who played a REAL role in winning WWII ...
Oh yeah, maybe it&#039;s because he didn&#039;t agree that War Is Good(TM)
Now there&#039;s an example of thinking outside the box! I didn&#039;t want to go, either, but it never occurred to me to go get myself shot so I could avoid getting myself shot ... I applaud your ingenuity :)
I just remember watching Chet Huntley in front of a map of some brown place and waiting for <i>Bird&#039;s Eye View</i> or Laugh-In or something.
Telephone call between LBJ and Senator Richard Russell on May 27, 1964: <i>Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I&#039;d like to hear you talk a little bit. Russell: Well, frankly, Mr. President, if you were to tell me that I was authorized to settle as I saw fit, I would respectfully decline to undertake it. It&#039;s the damn worse mess that I ever saw, and I don&#039;t like to brag and I never have been right many times in my life, but I knew that we were gone to get into this sort of mess when we went in there. And I don&#039;t see how we&#039;re ever going to get out of it without fighting a major war with the Chinese and all of them down there in those rice paddies and jungles. I just don&#039;t see it. I just don&#039;t know what to do. Johnson: Well, that&#039;s the way I have been feeling for six months.</i> Transcript: <a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/a..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/lbj...">https://www.mtholyoke.edu/a... Audio: <a href="http://millercenter.org/pre..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exh...">http://millercenter.org/pre...
I wish I wasn&#039;t.
Carthago delenda est, muthafucker!
We did scatter megatons - about eight of them in total.
I was thinking AOTK . . . but Grenada went pretty well. Pick your batttles, amirite?.
When we sang, &quot;<a href="https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php\?v=201674743217930" target="_blank">And it&#039;s 1, 2, 3 -- what are we fighting for?</a>&quot; nobody figured <a href="http:\/\/export.gov\/vietnam\/marketresearchonvietnam\/bestu.s.exportprospects\/index.asp" target="_blank"> this</a> would be the answer.
What? Nothing about the truth? That North Vietnam was forcing the south to buy health insurance?
&quot;teenage boy too young to enlist &quot; wtf? Underaged war porn?
I wonder why it is the wingnutz don&#039;t love them some Ike, you&#039;d think he was their dream president ... Republican military commander who played a REAL role in winning WWII ...
Oh yeah, maybe it&#039;s because he didn&#039;t agree that War Is Good(TM)
Now there&#039;s an example of thinking outside the box! I didn&#039;t want to go, either, but it never occurred to me to go get myself shot so I could avoid getting myself shot ... I applaud your ingenuity :)
I was one of those draft card burning hippies, and I wasn&#039;t at all pleased about the 2004 election
Strange shit, and when things went wrong, <a href="http://www.corpun.com/ukar4..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.corpun.com/ukar4607.htm">http://www.corpun.com/ukar4...
It never goes well for us when we jump into someone else&#039;s civil war.
Naw, Agent Orange was Super Green Beret&#039;s CIA sidekick.
Huh, I was always told it was Free World, Commie World and Third World, but I grew up in Oklahoma.
I just remember watching Chet Huntley in front of a map of some brown place and waiting for <i>Bird&#039;s Eye View</i> or Laugh-In or something.