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Haunting legacy : Vietnam and the American presidency from Ford to Obama /
The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a ""raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country."" The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | [Rev. ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Ford : finally, the war ends
- Ford and the mini-challenge of the Mayaguez
- Carter, Brzezinski, and Russia's Vietnam
- Reagan, Grenada, Lebanon, and the marines
- Bush I : burying Vietnam
- Clinton : the first baby-boomer president
- Bush II : boots on the ground
- 2004 : the Swift boat Campaign
- Obama : "Afghanistan is not Vietnam"
- "Good enough."