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Scott Perry: “It was not a military defeat. It was people like Walter Cronkite and other leftists and political activists in the…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 2024
It was not a military defeat. It was people like Walter Cronkite and other leftists and political activists in the United States of America that imposed that defeat.
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Perry argues that the Vietnam War was lost politically, not militarily.

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