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Claiborne Pell: “I, like many Americans, opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war and worked through the political process to bring it…”

On the recordMay 25, 1994
I, like many Americans, opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war and worked through the political process to bring it to an end. I was relieved that the war was over--a cause to which I had given many years of my life--that American soldiers were no longer dying, and that Vietnam was entering the United Nations.
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Claiborne Pell
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Discussing Mr. Brown's statements regarding the Vietnam War and an event invitation.

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