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Most people know that President Nixon inherited the war in Vietnam, but few remember that in 1971 he initiated the war on drugs
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff
But unlike the British, the Americans emerged from the war with their economy thriving: wartime spending had caused their gross domestic product almost to double in less than four years. If there could ever be such a thing as a “good” war, then this one, for the United States, came close.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Confronted with “so many who are not good,” they resolved “to learn to be able not to be good” themselves, and to use this skill or not use it, as the great Italian cynic—and patriot—had put it, “according to necessity.”
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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