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“[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.”

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Author:David Frum

“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.”

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Author:James Fallows

“So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

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Author:Edmund White

“I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.”

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Author:Dylan McDermott

“East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.”

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Author:William C. Kirby

“Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.”

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Book:Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics

Source: Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics