#1231 – Col. Fletcher Prouty

The censorship exercised by the newspaper editors

The advantages of hemp

Tungsten mining in Vietnam

The garden of eden in the world was Southeast Asia

Saigon was called the Paris of the Orient

It was mindless to destroy a beautiful place like Vietnam

Most likely one of the reasons for the Vietnam war was to get American businesses to replace the French

Is petroleum a fossil fuel?

Generally, no fossils are found below 16,000 feet

The oil depletion allowance

Video: President Kennedy calls out the steel companies (1962)

"It has long been a Kennedy tradition: not to get mad but to get even. I fully realize that

I shall not be able to get even during my first term in office. But during my second term,

you are going to see some important changes" - President Kennedy

Why was Governor Connally in the same car as the President?

Lansdale and Col. Prouty knew each other since 1952

Lansdale was sent to the Philippines in 1952 to overthrow President Elpidio Quirino

And replace him with the new President Ramon Magsaysay

Col. Napoleon Valeriano trained Cuban exiles before the bay of pigs invasion

Valeriano became an American citizen

A million Vietnamese migrated from the North to the South before the war

The US Navy transported 660,000 Vietnamese from the North to the South

330,000 were moved by CIA's airline Civil Air Transport (CAT)

On September 2, 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said "In Indochina, a desperate

struggle is in its eighth year....We are already contributing largely in matériel and money to the

combined efforts of the French and of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia."

Chiang Kai-Shek's presence at the Tehran conference

Article from Parade Magazine, Feb 1986:

Why Stalin Never Forgave Eleanor Roosevelt by Elliott Roosevelt: Page 1, Page 2

The cold war really began before the second world war ended

Our governments do not know how to operate without the threat of war

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The degradation of the infrastructure in the US