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LESLIE GELB: Vietnam in those days was a strategic chessboard, not a place with a culture that we would have even with the mighty force NARRATOR: to understand the complicated fail to appreciate and misread how the South about their government. The new president between the momentum of war between humility and hubris, between idealism and expediency
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LESLIE GELB:
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Vietnam in those days was
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a strategic chessboard,
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not a place with a culture
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that we would have
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even with the mighty force
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NARRATOR:
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to understand the complicated
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fail to appreciate
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and misread how the South
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about their government.
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The new president
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between the momentum of war
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between humility and hubris,
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between idealism and expediency,
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Movie Summary
A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.