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Mueller served in Vietnam and received the bronze star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry all as an Officer of the Marine Corps. When returning home he continued his studies.

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In 1967 Sasser was drafted into the United States Army, by the fall of that year he was in Vietnam. He was a part of the Army's 9th Infantry Division. Following many tests it was determined that he would be trained as a medical aidman. During his 51 days of combat he served as a combat medic. During combat he was hit by shrapnel from an exploding rocket, he pulled it out himself and continued to help patients. When returning back to patients he was hit by machine gun fire in both legs. It took several months of rehabilitation in Japan before he could use his legs again, while in the hospital he was presented the medal of honor.

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He was a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society, and also joined the Freedom Riders. During the mid 1960's he worked as part of the Newark Community Union Project and began traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam. Hayden was arrested in 1968 for protesting in Chicago becoming one of the "Chicago Seven".

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North trained at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. He led a platoon and received a silver medal and a purple heart during the Vietnam War. In 1981 Ronald Reagan appointed him to deputy-director of the National Security Council.

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Schwarzkopf volunteered in 1966 to fight in the Vietnam war. He earned several honors during his service including three silver stars, a bronze star and a purple heart. He was a battalion commander during the war.

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In 1964 Ellsburg went to work for the Department of Defense as a Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. By large coincidence his first day of work at the Pentagon August 4, 1964. Which was the day the second attack on the USS Maddox in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast off of Vietnam. This attack resulted in American intervention against the Vietnam War. His primary job was to create secret plans to escalate the war. In late 1969 he decided to begin secretly making copies of the Pentagon Papers and privately offering them to many influential congressman.

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Agnew was elected Vice President twice under Richard Nixon, during his second term he resigned after being charged with bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud. He had previously been governor of Maryland in in 1966. In 1969 he was elected Vice President, during his term he was known for his speeches criticizing the protesters of Vietnam and for accusing Democrats of being "soft on communism".

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Sanders became the first female journalist to cover the Vietnam War in the field. She was also the first woman to anchor a nightly newscast. During the late 1950's she worked with Mike Wallace as the producer at WNEW, later becoming the assistant director of WNEW radio in the 1960's. In 1964 Marlene Sanders joined ABC News which is where she had all of her success.

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During the Vietnam war Neil Sheehan was an American journalist who worked as a reporter for The New York Times. In 1966 he became the Pentagon's correspondent for the newspaper along with reporting for the White House. He was best known for writing top-secret documents in the "Pentagon Papers". In 1971 he obtained a top secret study of American strategies in Vietnam.

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President Lyndon Johnson chose William Westmoreland as a known veteran of WWII and the Korean War, to command the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam. Starting in 1964 and continuing for four years he directed most of the military strategies, growing the number of troops from 16,000 to 500,000. His idea was to inflict heavy damage on North Vietnam and Vietcong using mass amount of U.S. firepower. In June of 1968 Johnson replaced Westmoreland.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference  delivers a speech called "Beyond Vietnam"  infront of 3,000 people. In his speech he proposes that the U.S. stops bombing North and South Vietnam in hope that it would lead to peace talks. King was a solid supporter of the LBJ, but he became increasingly concerned about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. As his concerns became more public his relationship with the Johnson administration began to fade.

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Former lieutenant of the United States Army during the Vietnam War was found guilty in 1971 for ordering pairs of killings of South Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai Massacre. In March of 1968 Calley led his platoon into My Lai suspecting the presence of the Vietcong he ordered his troops to eliminate all beings. He was sentenced to life in prison for 22 of the murders, he appealed and received a reduced sentence. He was released from prison in 1974.

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Robert McNamara was an American business executive, statesman and diplomat. He left his seat as President of the Ford Motor Company in 1960 to become the U.S. Secretary of Defense. During Kennedy's presidency he supported his decision to increase American involvement in Vietnam. But during Lyndon Johnson's presidency he urged him to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict. Johnson asked McNamara to step down in 1967, he later published many books including his on memoir.

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When Nixon was elected he claimed to have the plan that was going to end the Vietnam War, but one third of the Americans that died in the war died during his presidency. He had a plan to bring "peace and honor" which mainly reduced American casualties he did this by having the South Vietnamese cover the ground he called this "Vietnamization" . Nixon provided the South Vietnamese with training and new weapons, he was trying to scare the North into peace by showing his willingness to bomb urban areas. In June of 1969 Nixon began removing troops from Vietnam and replaced the military draft with a lottery. In December of 1972 he began bombing North Vietnam, the "Christmas Bombings" led the Congressional Democrats to call for the end of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. In January of 1973 a cease-fire was signed and the United States agreed to withdraw from South Vietnam without any commitment from North Vietnam.

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Many of Johnson's advisers encouraged him to approach Vietnam more forcefully, by sending in Us troops to South Vietnam. At this time there had become a new leader of South Vietnam, Nguyen Khanh and he made it clear to Johnson that he did not believe that their Army could stand against the NLF (National Liberation Front). Johnson did not think that it was a good idea to send troops to South Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson told the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he would do all necessary to support South Vietnam except send troops until the election in November was over. President Johnson won the 1964 election and shortly after troops were sent to South Vietnam.

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When Kennedy gave his first speech prior to his presidency his announced that he was a strong believer in containing communism, and that he would be continuing Dwight Eisenhower's deal with Diem and support South Vietnam. President Kennedy also made it very clear that he supported the "domino theory", this meaning that if South Vietnam fell to communism then other states in the region would as well. Kennedy believed that just a small increase in US support for Diem would secure a victory in Vietnam. By the end of 1962 there were 12,000 Us advisers in South Vietnam, he also sent 300 helicopters with pilots.

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Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961, he was one of the many presidents during the Vietnam war. He made the decision to support anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem by by condensing powers with the South. In 1954 Eisenhower created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, he was attempting to block communism spreading throughout Southeast Asia. In February of 1955 President Eisenhower sent the first American Military advisers to Vietnam to build Diem's army. By October Eisenhower had offered military and economic assistance. During his second term he continued to support Diem, he increased his advisers to 900 men.

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He was commonly known as "Uncle Ho", he was North Vietnam's head of state during the Vietnam war. During the Vietnam war he decided to take a more behind the scenes role. To his people he was a symbol of unification. American air strikes began on North Vietnam in 1965 and then again in July of 1966, Ho sent the message to the people "nothing is as dear to the heart of the Vietnamese as independence and liberation." His words became the motto of their country.

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Ngo was a Vietnamese political leader who served as President, he contained dictatorial powers of South Vietnam. He held this position from 1955 until the day he was assassinated.

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Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. His perfection of guerrilla warfare along with conventional strategies and tactics, which led to the North Vietnamese victory over South Vietnam and the United States. Giap is considered one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century.

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