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Truman And Macarthur's Views On How To Fight The Vietnamese War

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Truman and MacArthur had some very different views on how to fight the Vietnamese war. In fact, their views differed on whether they should fight it at all. It seems to me that Truman's plan for containment was more of a people pleasing thing than a war thing. His view was that if we could be kind to other countries and provide things for them that they couldn't provide for themselves, we would gain their favor and they would be indebted to us. In Truman's words, "Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the existence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”(B) . Although there is a lot of talking in politics, there is a lot of silence about things too. The Secretary
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