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Just to clarify: although hundreds of thousands of persons died in the Vietnam conflict, the number of Americans who died was 58,220.

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Chris, the tragic Kent State

protest was a monumental event for my generation. You would think it moved the electorate to reject Nixon, but he won reelection anyway. He had to resign for more mundane reasons.

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