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BigmanPigman

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24. I laugh out loud then say a few 4 letter words

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Tue Sep 19, 2017, 01:16 AM

Sep 2017

everything I hear that the Kochs are paying for anything on PBS...(hypocrites).

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JFK after watching the second installment of "The Vietnam War" [View all] question everything Sep 2017 OP

Kennedy sent my dad, twice. LeftInTX Sep 2017 #1

LOL, don't believe it. He didn't buy into the Domino Theory, he predicted the quagmire reality. ucrdem Sep 2017 #2

But until the elections - which were more than a year away - he was going to tolerate question everything Sep 2017 #5

No, LBJ didn't want to end it. ucrdem Sep 2017 #7

LOL yourself Spider Jerusalem Sep 2017 #9

Right, I've seen it. Quite the gotcha considering that he was killed shortly after. ucrdem Sep 2017 #13

I noticed one of the supporters of the show is David H. KOCH riverbendviewgal Sep 2017 #3

The reality is that the Kock brothers, or, perhaps only one of them, has been an underwriter question everything Sep 2017 #6

I laugh out loud then say a few 4 letter words BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #24

Ken Burns is the documentarian karynnj Sep 2017 #21

"We've always held LBJ responsible for the war." SharonClark Sep 2017 #4

I learned a lot of the background in the first segment. I was a high school student, then a young Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #35

If you want to go back to JFK, let's also go back to Eisenhower. RandySF Sep 2017 #8

Go back to Truman. Spider Jerusalem Sep 2017 #10

Right, thanks, was gonna post that, elleng Sep 2017 #14

This! pokerfan Sep 2017 #19

Exactly. Ho Chi Minh was already working with the OSS. Warren DeMontague Sep 2017 #27

And that little money became $3 billion dalton99a Sep 2017 #20

And, of course, Churchill was wiser than all of them question everything Sep 2017 #31

Is it me, or do most editorials and columns in the Tribune bash Democrats? RandySF Sep 2017 #11

They endorsed Gary Johnson RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #12

compared to the days of old man mc cormick, they are pussy cats. but yeah. mopinko Sep 2017 #15

The Chicago Tribune leans right and it has for at least 50 years. Nt karynnj Sep 2017 #22

Much Farther Back Than That ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #30

They certainly have been on the right, historically question everything Sep 2017 #28

USA supported free elections then refused to honor the outcome. that's where it began for us nt msongs Sep 2017 #16

Kennedy had begun a withdrawl from Vietnam tirebiter Sep 2017 #17

Johnson became President when JFK died, not when he was elected karynnj Sep 2017 #23

Timing. LBJ ran for reelection a year after the assassination. tirebiter Sep 2017 #25

Well, from a historical point of view, Vietnam did have a . . FairWinds Sep 2017 #18

Ah, but Hussein tried to kill Papa Bush! question everything Sep 2017 #32

JFK had plans to start withdrawal, iirc, which were forestalledby his assassination... Hekate Sep 2017 #26

And yet, McCarthy never endorsed Humphrey question everything Sep 2017 #33

I became a Democrat-for-life in 1968, and nothing has shaken me from that stance since ... Hekate Sep 2017 #34

In my high school civics class we were educated about the Vietnam War from information supplied jalan48 Sep 2017 #29