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Daniel Ellsberg:
Someone said this, at some point, about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me
Someone said this, at some point, about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me
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Someone said this at some point
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about why we stayed when we knew we were losing
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10 was to help the South Vietnamese
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20 was to hold back the commies
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70 was to avoid
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the humiliation of an American defeat
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70 of those boys
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just to avoid being humiliated
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That stuck with me
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Movie Summary
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
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Daniel Ellsberg
