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the capital of Hanoi; and South Vietnam became a republic
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run by a succession, I think it's fair to say,
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of pretty corrupt leaders who carried out U.S.
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policy in exchange for a free hand in all of that.
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Now, one thing that was going on behind all of that is the
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dissatisfaction of the army with what happened in Vietnam.
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Now, because the army, which had emerged from World War One
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victorious--but ultimately France was less powerful than
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Germany had been in defeat; France in victory was less powerful--
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had been defeated and many officers argued that it was the collapse of
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the home front that had brought this about,
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and that they had been supported actively by--over the long run;