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" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "
George McGovern
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" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
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