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The Arab Spring: Obama’s Vietnam?

The Arab Spring: Obama’s Vietnam?

by | Jan 23, 2013 | Opinion

In a telephone call between former United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell (May 1964), the president admitted that the Vietnam War could be a protracted one and that he did not see any signs for a resolution on the horizon. Despite this,...