To what extent did the Vietnam War shape political and social tensions in the United States from 1960 to 1976?
To what extent did the Vietnam War shape political and social tensions in the United States from 1960 to 1976?
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Transcribed Image Text:To what extent did the Vietnam War shape political and social tensions in the United States from
1960 to 1976?
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Whereas the United States is assisting the peoples of southeast Asia to protect their freedom
and has no territorial, military or political ambitions in that area, but desires only that these
people should be left in peace to work out their destinies in their own way: Now, therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the
President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack
against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
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... it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the
poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and die
in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the
black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand
miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest
Georgia and East Harlem.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1967
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I know it may not be fashionable to speak of patriotism or national destiny these days. But I
feel it is appropriate to do so on this occasion.
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we
passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of
millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight to you, the
great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support. ...
Let us be united for peace. Let us also be united against defeat. Because let us understand:
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Richard Nixon, 1969
Address to the Nation
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Vhat I propose is that we spend all that is necessary for prudent national defense, and no
more. I propose that we conserve our limited resources:
By no longer underwriting the appalling waste-of money and manpower that has
become such a bad habit in our military establishment;
By rejecting the purchase of weapons which are designed to fight the last war better,
with almost no relevance to today's threat;
By refusing to maintain extra military forces that can have no other purpose than to
repeat our experience in Vietnam, a venture which nearly all of us now recognize as a
monstrous national blunder;
By repudiating the false world of old discredited myths, made up of blocs, puppets,
and dominoes, facing instead the real world of today and the future with multiple
ideologies and interests.
George McGovern, 1972
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