Here is the excerpt from A Rumor of War which best illustrates Vietnam's uncomfortable climate:
<span><em>The tedium was occasionally relieved by a large-scale search-and-destroy operation, but the exhilaration of riding the lead helicopter into a landing zone was usually followed by more of the same hot walking, with the mud sucking at our boots and the sun thudding against our helmets while an invisible enemy shot at us from distant tree lines.</em></span>
It is not just five presidents but eight. <span>The eight Presidents
elected during the Cold war are : Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixion, Carter, Regan,
and Bush.
To see the timeline and the dates of the election, see attached file.</span>
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
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