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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Quotes from Presidents Johnson and Nixon –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In 1968 President Johnson assumed full responsibility for failures in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region> (a
lesson that President Bush has yet to learn).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In 1969, President Nixon spoke of shared responsibility in war,
something he failed to learn from.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The Vietnam War officially ended on August 31, 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future
under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for
peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour
or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than
the awesome duties of this office--the Presidency of your country. Accordingly,
I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another
term as your President."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>- Lyndon B. Johnson (March 31, 1968)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“We
Americans are a do-it-yourself people. We are an impatient people. Instead of
teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves. And this trait
has been carried over into our foreign policy. In <st1:country-region w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>
and again in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
furnished most of the money, most of the arms, and most of the men to help the
people of those countries defend their freedom against Communist aggression. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Before
any American troops were committed to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>,
a leader of another Asian country expressed this opinion to me when I was
traveling in <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place> as a private citizen. He
said: ‘When you are trying to assist another nation defend its freedom, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> policy
should be to help them fight the war but not to fight the war for them.’”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>- Richard Nixon (November 3, 1969)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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