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> how we got past it the first time

An interesting reflection. After Nixon's shame, the popular discourse seemed able to reflect constructively on his failings and on the Viet Nam war. The country recovered its reputation as a leading democracy.

What the country's enemies within and without have done to information and public discourse in the past decade seems at times almost fatal to the state.



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