Episode 62 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 9) Operation Lam Son 914 Laos

George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History

English - December 23, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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One of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we conducted an operation with only South Vietnamese troops on the ground and we provided air support. In the end, our side got walloped.

This happened in an operation in which our side went over the border into neighboring Laos to finally stop the Communist forces from moving supplies an ammunition down that portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Despite the heavy losses, overall things were going better for our forces and more and more reductions of our own troops involvement in the war was happening.

In this episode, we look at the Laotian campaign, its aftermath, and then we listen in as President Richard Nixon delivers one of his best and most powerful speeches to the nation on the situation we faced in Vietnam.

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