Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And in a way, right, for Johnson, you know, JFK stands for all that is wrong with America.
This is, you know, Johnson, extreme poverty, right?
Profound humiliation, rural background now is essentially kind of serving under this individual.
who is from the East Coast, right?
Very privileged background, a very clean individual coming from some of the best schools and the most privileged institutions of the East Coast.
And this is where it kind of gets worse is that, of course, you know, JFK will surround himself with like-minded and kind of like-trained people, right?
I mean, I mean,
JFK's advisors are from these Ivy Leagues.
And despite the fact that Johnson is his vice president, JFK will never refrain from insulting him, from humiliating every chance he gets, from making fun of the accent to the way that Johnson dresses.
And of course, you know, Johnson picks up on this and it validates a lot of the things that he's believed for a good part of his life about Washington, about certain American classes.
You know, I like the fact that you brought up Korea, Don, because we call it the forgotten war, and in many ways it is, right?
I mean, teaching this stuff, it's astounding how much attention Vietnam gets, and Korea, it's barely a footnote.
But as it turns out, I mean, Korea, I mean, the war in Korea itself is hugely significant, right?
as a standalone historical development.
Beyond that, you cannot possibly understand why the U.S.
gets involved in Vietnam and why the U.S.
behaves the way it does in Vietnam unless you understand Korea and the impact it has on the American political consciousness.
You know, everything America does in Vietnam, I mean, a lot of what America does in Vietnam is conditioned by what Americans think they learned from Korea.
And so under JFK, the U.S.
is committed to Vietnam because of Korea, right?
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