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Scott Perry: “It was not a military defeat [in Vietnam].”

Featuring: Scott Perry, Republican | U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 10

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Published | Video Starts at 01:51

Regarding the comment that there was a defeat in Vietnam, I want to make sure, because I grew up during that time as you did. I imagine, sir, just gauging from seeing you here, It was not a military defeat [in Vietnam]. It was people like Walter Cronkite and other leftists and political activists in the United States of America that imposed that defeat. And it's important to me. (01:51–01:59)

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Asserts that the Vietnam War was not lost by the military.

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