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The pressure to bring an end President Lyndon Johnson not to run again, assassinations and unrest and the country was preparing Meanwhile, American and North were getting nowhere. The communists insisted there no substantive negotiations until the United States stopped LENNON: NARRATOR: who had turned from hawk to dove after just a few months begged the president "We can only hope for success he told Johnson. "We are in a war we cannot win." The president refused
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The pressure to bring an end
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President Lyndon Johnson
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not to run again,
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assassinations and unrest
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and the country was preparing
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Meanwhile, American and North
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were getting nowhere.
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The communists insisted there
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no substantive negotiations
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until the United States stopped
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LENNON:
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NARRATOR:
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who had turned from hawk to dove
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after just a few months
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begged the president
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"We can only hope for success
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he told Johnson.
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"We are in a war we cannot win."
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The president refused
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Movie Summary
A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.
