... states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] was largely gone in the ... ...

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... cut both ways, allowing most to see Kennedy as a hero, still some as a villain. The man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, or the cold war warrior who brought the world to the brink of destruction, The lost leader who could have saved the agony of Vietnam, or the man who set the scene for ... ...

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