e U.S. was an attempt to assume empire and world leadership, an attempt to become the world power after World War II. As President Johnson said in 1965, “We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw” (Buzzanco 75).
While detailing U.S. involvement in the war, Buzzanco tries to disabuse his readers of the notion that American lack of success in the Vietnam War was because of politicians and protestors tying the hand
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