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Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War
Beginning more than sixty years ago, speechmaking supported the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. Rhetoric helped send more than a half-million troops to defend the Vietnamese government the United States had yet sponsored; that policy led to dissent, and ultimately, Congress forcing the executive b...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Texas A & M University Press
2014
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Beginning more than sixty years ago, speechmaking supported the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. Rhetoric helped send more than a half-million troops to defend the Vietnamese government the United States had yet sponsored; that policy led to dissent, and ultimately, Congress forcing the executive branch to terminate U.S. involvement. The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume, from Ho Chi Minh's ""Declaration of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam"" in 1945 to John Kerry's ""Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"" in 1971, express the entire range o ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781603443500 |