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Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  Vietnam: What Next?
Item Title Vietnam: What Next?
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Lynd, Staughton
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created May 23, 1966
Description Mr. Lynd had recently visited Hanoi--to "propagandize for the Vietcong," Mr. Buckley suggests; to "clarify, if we could, the approach to peace negotiations from the other side," Mr. Lynd insists. A spirited exchange with a scholar whose specialty is "the Radical Tradition in America before 1900." WFB: "Listen, Professor, let's stop dropping these little statistical gems around the place. What Eisenhower said when he used the term 80 per cent was that 80 per cent of the [Vietnamese] people would have joined in any war against the French. He didn't say that 80 per cent were in favor of Ho Chi Minh. . . ." SL: "Well, what President Eisenhower said, in fact, ... is that at the time of the end of the war against the French, in 1954, ... 80 per cent of the people of Vietnam as a whole would have voted for Ho Chi Minh in an election." WFB: "As an alternative to Bao Dai. Ho Chi Minh had not started his rather systematic euthanasia of people who disagreed with him, however, as of 1954. He was considered the George Washington of that area."
Subject(s) Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Indochinese War, 1946-1954 Vietnam
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Moving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color black and white
Color black and white
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 011
Record Number 80040.11
Notes Video available through Amazon.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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