In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build a democratic firewall against Communism in South Vietnam were failing. The country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, ran the nation like a fiefdom.

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Many, even today, fall passionately in love with the ideals ... At the heart of the Marxist-Leninist system was the Communist Party, made up of people who considered themselves to be uniquely ...