“Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.”

Source: Useful Idiots – How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, by Mona Charen, paper-back edition, 2004, page 24.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 24 from Charen’s book.
Where: Following a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, in a conversation with columnist James Reston, explaining that during the meeting he, Kennedy, was seen as weak.
Contributor: AIM.

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