Hearts and Minds
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- How much?
- One thousand.

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You? Ah, it's too much.
Beaucoup.

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Yeah, for sure. No, no good.
- [Indistinct]

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**If you miss the train I"m on **
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-** You will know that I am gone **
- No. No.

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-** You can hear the whistle blow **
- No. Go home, mama-san.

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**A hundred miles **
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**Lord, I"m one, Lord, I"m two **
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**Lord, I"m three, Lord, I"m four **
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**Lord, I"m five hundred miles **
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**From my home **
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**Five hundred miles
Five hundred miles **

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**Five hundred miles
Five hundred miles **

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**Lord, I"m five hundred miles **
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**From my home ****
:17:11
We thought of ourselves, I think,
as trying to defeat communists.

:17:16
Defeat--Accepting a view of, uh--
the Walt Rostow kind of view--

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of covert aggression
of some kind.

:17:24
The kind of view that enabled you
to think of the conflict...

:17:27
in, really, World War II terms.
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That was an unquestioned assumption.
:17:31
It had an idealistic flavor to it,
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but it was the underpinning of
an imperial policy, basically.

:17:37
I shared the assumption,
very easily,

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and felt it as an idealistic one really.
:17:42
We were doing something for them.
:17:44
I recall that I was in the New York area
at the time,

:17:48
and I stopped by
to see General MacArthur,

:17:51
who I had known for several years.
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Uh, when he greeted me, he made, uh,
quite a prophetic statement.


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