>>Propoganda, almost by definition, is at least slanted and at worst a fabrication. I remember during the Vietnam war the "Information" put out by the US and the "Propoganda" put out by the North Vietnamese. It's interesting to me to see an American President using the word "propoganda" in a postive sense (or else I'm misreading the quote).
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>This reminds me. History is written by the winner. Now, considering that there was no actual winner of the Vietnam war.
North Vietnam in the end ruled the whole country. Hanoi was renamed to Ho Chi Minh. The army of the south was disbanded. The foreign aides fled. Nobody won?
>There most probably are two offical version of the history of the war.
If we take the "if it wasn't published it didn't happen" as an axiom, there's only one version of the history. The American version.