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Aug. 23, 2002
In Search of Our Past
Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - History, the cliché tells us, is a continuum. The seeds of World War II were sown at Versailles. The American Civil War was a re-fighting of the Revolution. You can draw a line straight from Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to Tet in 1968. The young Franklin D. Roosevelt stands before President Grover Cleveland in the White House. Cleveland tells the boy, "My hope for you is that you never become president."
By Douglas G. Carnahan
History, the cliché tells us, is a continuum. The seeds of World War II were sown at Versailles. The American Civil War was a re-fighting of the Revolution. You can draw a line straight from Dien Bien ...
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