U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater claimed that the Vietnam War "would have been over in a month" had he been elected President in 1964.
Seems doubtful.
Goldwater was the most right wing truly conservative Republican candidate to have ever been nominated, far more conservative than Ronald Reagan, and a true conservative, unlike the current occupant of the Oval Office.
A South Vietnamese pilot, Nguyễn Thành Trung, dropped bombs on the Presidential Place and then defected.
This is an event that I can recall occuring.
He want on to serve in the North Vietnamese air force and then worked as a commercial pilot for Vietnam Airlines.
South Vietnamese Major General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu was found shot dead in his command post.at the Biên Hòa airbase,
The Godfather Part II won an Academy Award for best picture, the first sequel to do so.
Frank Robinson became the first black manager in Major League. More on Robinson:
April 8, 1975: Frank Robinson Becomes Baseball's 1st Black Manager
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