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The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.
Robert Mundell
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.


Michael Herr
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.


R. Lee Ermey
I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.
Helmut Schmidt
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.


Dan Fogelberg
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
Karl Marlantes
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Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell
This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials.
George Takei
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.


Benjamin Spock
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We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.


Curtis LeMay
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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.


John Pilger
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I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.


Steven Saylor
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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.


Neville Marriner
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.


Randy Houser
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.


Ian McShane
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If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.


Phylicia Rashad
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