McGeorge Bundy Quotes
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The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.
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Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.
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There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.
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Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.
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Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.
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It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action.
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