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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?
Description: What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?For our latest counterfactual David talks to historian Thant Myint-U about his grandfather U Thant, UN Secretary General for most of the 1960s and the man who might have ended the Vietnam War before it really got started. How close did U Thant get to bringing LBJ and the Vietcong to the negotiating table in 1964? What ultimately scuppered his chances? And how differently might the Cold War have turned out if he had succeeded?Sign up now to PPF+ to get ad-free listening and all our bonus...