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Robert F. Kennedy

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Are we like the God of the Old Testament, that we in Washington can decide which cities, towns, and hamlets in Vietnam will be destroyed? Do we have to accept that? I don't think we do. I think we can do something about it.
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About the Vietnam War, in his last speech at the Senate on the subject

 
Robert F. Kennedy

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