North Vietnam

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    “We should declare war on North Vietnam.... We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “It is the sea that whitens the roof.
    The sea drifts through the winter air.
    It is the sea that the north wind makes.
    The sea is in the falling snow.
    This gloom is the darkness of the sea.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)