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Coming sooner than you think shall be a searing narrative. Why? Because it's way past time for the legislative + executive & judicial branches—and the gullible, flighty & small-minded balloting electorate to wake up, i.e., Big Government + Big Legal™ and "We The (balloting) People" of 1788's Constitutional Republic fame!

Respectfully,

OKJack™Group™

Coming soon for the purpose of explaining just one more time and in no uncertain and quite candid terms, just exactly how an inexhaustible supply of SW Asia insurgents ensures unwinnable & indeterminate counterinsurgencies—indeterminate unless an otherwise politically cowardly & blissfully ignorant congress cuts the money off from the Military-Industrial Complex aka Pentagonal Defense Contractor Complex™ that Ike cautioned about during his farewell speech of January 17, 1961.

Respectfully,

OKJack™Group™

If there is one bit of crystal clearness that we here at OKJack™Group™ have gleaned from the past 4 years—and most particularly from the recent crescendo of November 3rd shotgunned-out-and-received-from-the-four-winds multimillions of mail-in ballots, it is this.

Near early-octogenarian Joseph Robinette Biden's moldy and disingenuous old refrain calling for his presiding over some kind of purple unity of his left and our right is simply a Biden basement family fantasy!

In other words, Biden's is the meaningless mumbo jumbo of typical establishment status quo give-me-your-vote politician talk emanating from the muddy banks of The Great Dismal D.C. Swamp—that he and his democrat crocodile & republican alligator brethren have been slipping & sliding around on for the past half a century!

Said another way, Obama/Biden's post-1788 extraconstitutional Blue Fringe Democrat Democracy is totally incompatible with Our ratified Constitutional 1788 Great Red Republican Republic!

Regardless of what Biden says, Obama/Biden's left leaning base is mostly crowded & urban—with a tincture of socialism & progressivism that borders on communism mixed with immoralism, which if left to itself, would lead to the collapse of our capitalistic small business economy and the disarming of our military and police!

In the almost one year leading up to the November 3rd shotgunned-out-and-received-from-the-four-winds multimillions of mail-in ballots, fifth column anarchists and terrorists made the foregoing abundantly clear—while Biden took full political advantage of every second, minute, hour, day, week & month of the accompanying chaos!

On the other hand, our right leaning base is mostly uncrowded & rural—with small business capitalism, law & order and military tradition at its very heart!

The bottom line is simply this.

Our 1788 ratified Constitution's United States of America began becoming extraconstitutionally transformed into the "Disunited" States of America in 1789—and the past 4 years have seen Obama/Biden's proxies and cronies use such disunity to impede and therefore foster the disunited manner of governance flowing like vinegar out of the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the federal government.

Therefore, independently wealthy mid-septuagenarian President Donald John Trump doesn't pretend that disunity doesn't exist—but rather than acquiesce and surrender to disunity's establishment status quo, President Trump simply governs right from it's epicenter!

Ignoring Trump's vast economic, military & foreign policy accomplishments, Biden will most certainly carry on the pretense of the Obama/Biden years—while laughing all the way to his earthbound Irish bank. Having honed his banking skills while vice president, he will most assuredly put those skills to work while president—quickly and exponentially no doubt, since Harris will be dogging his heels every inch of the way.

Unlike America's southwestern border of course, it's downright impossible to drag anything through Saint Peter's Pearly Gates.

Well, we here at OKJack™Group™ know that, anyway.

The 2020 election is just about over so it is said, and after much thought and number crunching—we here at OKJack™Group™ conclude that the Law of Averages is still the law, and therefore still alive and well!

Unfortunately, the election system was shot deader than a doornail. The weapons? Why the millions of mail-in ballots that were indiscriminately shotgunned out in certain states. These, not to be confused with the smaller number of absentee ballots that legally registered voters normally apply for. Essentially, tens of millions of ballots simply came out of the woodwork!

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In other words, a skilful slight of hand occurred right before our very own eyes—and in the process, the Law of Averages was defied, evaded & bent out of shape (although not broken). Said another way, our attention was diverted by unimpeded street violence, disingenuous propaganda & surreptitiously misleading polls—and in the end, we were cleverly blindsided.

Worse—the mere two months or so between election and inauguration is simply too short a period of time to turn things around and make things right. That's because the remedy lies at the supreme Court, and winding one's way through the judicial branch of government is cumbersome and time consuming—not to mention the fact that justice isn't as blind as we'd like it to be.

Blindside us once, shame on them. Blindside us twice, shame on us.

So, conservatives had better stay laser focused on November 8, 2022 and November 5, 2024!

If they do, the House of Representatives will likely lose its present liberal majority of 222 seats (51%)—said majority having been already seriously wounded by an increase of 16 conservatives to 213 seats (49%) in 2020! What's important is conservative control, and such control rests with 218 seats (5l.1%). As long as there is conservative control, there will be an all powerful conservative Speaker of the House!

On the other hand, the Senate is likely to remain under conservative control [currently 52 seats (52%)] over the next four years. Although 60 seats is desirable because of Senate Rule XXII pertaining to filibusters, picking up that many seats is essentially a fantasy. What's important is conservative control, and such control rests with 51 seats (5l%) (or with 50 seats + the vice president). As long as there is conservative control, there will be an all powerful conservative Senate Majority Leader!

Conservative control of the House & Senate will pave the way for the White House's return to conservative hands in 2024.

Naturally, we're referring to think-outside-the-box conservative hands—not the hands of the establishment status quo! Of course, that means the loyalty and support of the aforementioned all powerful conservative Speaker of the House & Senate Majority Leader!

The wounds that establishment status quo conservatives inflicted upon themselves in 2016, 2018 and even 2020, should never be allowed to happen again, i.e., shooting themselves in one or both feet, as well as falling on their swords!

All that sort of thing does is handcuff a think-outside-the-box conservative agenda!

Said another way, Speaker Ryan and Leader McConnell hesitated far too long to offer their loyalty and support to President Trump. As a matter of fact, Speaker Ryan could be said to have been the one to fall on his sword, while Leader McConnell was the one who shot himself in at least one foot!

Talk about a loss of conservative focus!

Surprised by his 2016 electoral vote win, President Trump was working hard to organize the White House and articulate his think-outside-the-box conservative legislative agenda for the economy. All the while, the lack of loyalty and support from the establishment status quo's conservative-controlled House & Senate was simply appalling!

It's no wonder then that the liberal Congresswoman Pelosi, she representing California's West Coast Sodom, managed to wrest the speaker's gavel from Congressman Ryan's hand—he being essentially blinded by the glare of the East Coast Beltway's Gomorrah.

Said Gomorrah was then, and continues to be where establishment status quo liberal crocodiles & establishment status quo conservative alligators thrash around—said crocs & gators having their usual high old time slipping & sliding around on the muddy banks of Capitol Hill's Great Dismal D.C. Swamp, while playfully nipping at one another's reptilian noses and tails.

The mirrorlike similarity of the aforementioned crocs & gators is no accident, and that's for sure. That's why nobody (even they) can hardly tell the difference between the economic, military & foreign policy fantasies that both democrats and republicans perpetuate decade in and decade out—while routinely and joyfully swapping temporary control of the White House, Senate & House of Representatives.

It's no wonder then, that socialists, progressives and even communists are doing their best to infiltrate and take over the democrat party of Kennedy/Johnson, who certainly didn't help their party's legacy. This, when they & congress cut the top marginal individual federal income tax rate to the bone (70%) in 1964.

That's where the top marginal rate should have remained, a brief look at history demonstrating that very point, to wit:

Beginning with the republican party's constitutional Amendment XVI and the democrat party's implementation thereof in 1913, i.e., the creation of America's income tax—the wealthiest Americans paid the taxes that in turn paid the country's bills and minimized the U.S. Public Debt. On the other hand, the untaxed working class created America's booming small business economy. This, while said working class morphed into the greatest and most prosperous consumer middle class the world has ever known—in spite of two world wars and the Great Depression!

By 1981, the Kennedy/Johnson top marginal rate cut of 1964 proved too great a temptation for both a new president and the congressional courtesans still splashing around in the Great Dismal D.C. Swamp. That is, the 1964 cut opened the door for Reagan/Bush 41 and congress to emulate and even replicate it. In the process, however, they severely wounded the legacy of the republican party of Eisenhower/Nixon—this, by taking Kennedy/Johnson's enfeebling of America's once great & prosperous middle class one giant step farther.

The supply side economic fantasy of Reagan/Bush 41 (and congress) resulted in their cutting the top marginal rate for America's wealthiest taxpayers  from its successful 17-year run at 70% down to 50% in 1981, and then down to a mere 28% in 1988—while simultaneously raising the consuming middle class's bottom marginal rate from 0% to 15%! They should have left well enough alone, i.e., kept their hands out of the cookie jar! In addition to further enfeebling the consuming middle class, they kicked off the massive expansion of the U.S. Public Debt from a mere $1 trillion in 1981, to a debt that is today approaching some $25 trillion!

Interestingly, when Bush 41 was campaigning against Reagan during the 1980 republican primaries, he called Reagan's top marginal tax cut proposals "voodoo economics", the sole purpose of which was to get himself (Reagan) elected.

At that point, Reagan offered Bush 41 the number two spot on the republican presidential ticket, and the rest is history.

Okay then.

In a moment, we'll look at the numbers reflecting the unfortunate blindsiding of the singularly think-outside-the-box conservative, Donald Trump—he being the President & Commander in Chief who shook the establishment status quo to its very foundations with his exceptionally successful  views & follow-through on America's economy, its military and its foreign policy.

Essentially, President Trump's economic & military views fit very neatly into what we here at OKJack™Group™ have been espousing for many years now, i.e., National Economic Power = National Military Power = National Survival™.

Likewise, President Trump's foreign policy views on (among other things) terminating indeterminate, unwinnable & humanly/financially costly SW Asia military counterinsurgencies, as well as securing America's southern border fit right in with what we have also been espousing for some years, i.e., "Get Out of SW Asia—Get Into SW America™"!

Now the numbers.

We conclude that the following numbers vividly demonstrate how the Law of Averages was defied, evaded & bent out of shape (although not broken) during the 2020 election—essentially through the millions of mail-in ballots that were indiscriminately shotgunned out in certain states. These, not to be confused with the far smaller number of absentee ballots that legally registered voters normally apply for. As we said earlier, tens of millions of ballots simply came out of the woodwork!

The average number of ballots counted in each of the 6 presidential elections from 1996 to 2016 was 120,000,000 (an average of +5%/+5,000,000 ballots each 4-year term)—said average even reflecting a decline in 1996 of -8%/-8,000,000 ballots counted (the Clinton reelection), and a subsequent decline in 2012 of -2%/-2,000,000 ballots (the Obama reelection).

Yet here we stand today, being asked by the establishment status quo to somehow believe that the number of ballots counted in 2020 is some 158,400,000 or an astounding periodic increase of +32%/+38,400,000 v. the foregoing 6-presidential-election average periodic increase of +5%/+5,000,000—as well as to believe an almost equally astounding 1-presidential-election increase of +16%/+21,700,000 v. that selfsame average periodic increase of +5%/+5,000,000!

That's right! In 2020, we're talking some 7 to 8 times the average periodic increase of +5,000,000 ballots counted per presidential election between 1996 and 2016—as well as between 4 & 5 times that selfsame average periodic increase of +5,000,000 ballots, just since the 136,700,000 ballots counted in the 2016 presidential election!

In other words, +38,400,000/+5,000,000 = 7.68 and +21,700,000/+5,000,000 = 4.34.

Such purported increases promptly beg the question, "Did that many, i.e., tens of millions, of legally eligible voters actually decide to forego a quarter of a century of concealment, seclusion & anonymity by suddenly becoming better citizens than they had been in the 6 previous presidential elections—or did tens of millions of ballots just somehow come out of the woodwork?"

You've got to admit that the 2020 presidential election was exposed to one heck of an anomaly, i.e., an event that by definition finds itself radically different, abnormal, peculiar and obviously not easily open to classification!

Now then. The establishment status quo would likely say that stay at home boredom and/or fear of the pandemic brought this unprecedented course of human events into play, i.e., those who usually don't cast a ballot had nothing better to do than to vote, or were scared into voting.

Okay. We'll play their iffy game—but not to the astounding degree that we here at OKJack™Group™ have just described!

Yes, the Law of Averages is as simple as 1,2,3!

P.S. In closing, we here at OKJack™Group™ would like for you to mark our words. Until the inauguration, Big Media will rail against President Trump, while ignoring Biden's obvious health, judgment & character issues. This, in spite of said Big Media's gleefully incessant railing & wailing over the past four years.

Then, beginning at Noon on January 20th, Biden and his proxies & cronies will set aside railing & wailing in favor of blaming President Trump each and every time that he (Biden) makes an obvious misstep while tooling around in the democrat party's economic, military & foreign policy fantasyland.

Of course, members of Big Media will just as gleefully join in whatever blame game that Biden and his proxies & cronies  make available to them.

Those who participate in anarchism, terrorism & immoralism are in fact anarchists, terrorists & immoralists! Sitting on the fence and tolerating anarchism, terrorism & immoralism isn't any better, i.e., on the downtown streets of cities in chaos such as Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago & New York City from whose chaotic states, constitutional electoral votes were cast for Hillary Clinton in 2016. There were others as well. It is these selfsame chaotic states of California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois & New York whose constitutional electoral votes will be cast for Joseph Biden in 2020, and there will be other such chaotic states.

The United States has a constitutional republican form of government, not a democracy. Neither the Constitution nor any other Founding Document contains the words democracy or democrat. Naturally then, you won't find the words socialism, communism & progressivism there either!

Look for yourself.

What is it then that makes the United States of America so strong in the economic and military arenas that it will always survive, where for instance the Chinese Communists will not survive?

The phrase you are looking for at this point is small business capitalism—and certainly not corporate socialism, communism & progressivism!

Capitalism in general, and small business capitalism in particular are the indispensable keys to national economic power and in turn national military power—which are just naturally followed by national survival!

Why then are mostly white anarchists, terrorists & immoralists resorting to domestic violence, while using as their cause célèbre & call to arms, black America?

Think about it, and the answer will come to you.

Be aware that the duly elected & sworn President of the United States is patiently waiting for legislatures or governors of states in chaos to invoke Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, i.e. "...The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence...".

When Elected on November 5, 2019,

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& Sworn in by 17th Chief Justice on January 20, 2017

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Article II. Section 2. Clause 1. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Clause 2. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

Clause 3. The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Article V. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

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Effective March 4, 1789

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Sec. 35. And there shall also be appointed a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney-general for the United States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be provided.

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Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the supreme court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice and five associate justices, any four of whom shall be a quorum, and shall hold annually at the seat of government two sessions, the one commencing the first Monday of February, and the other the first Monday of August. That the associate justices shall have precedence according to the date of their commissions, or when the commissions of two or more of them bear date on the same day, according to their respective ages.

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Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States

August 9, 1960 

Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted. 

General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. 

From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained. 

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall. 

Sincerely,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President of the United States

General of the Army

In the opinion of the undersigned, there was but one president who could really be counted on to bring America's diversities together upon inauguration to his first term on January 20, 1953—that singular American being 62-year old General of the Army Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, the Soldier who conceived, planned and executed the stratagem that deceived the Nazi German occupiers in France. Said strategy led to the June 6, 1944, D-Day Invasion of Continental Europe that would take a diverse allied navy from Great Britain across the English Channel to the French coast, where an even more diverse allied army & air force would battle their way through France, Belgium & Holland, across the Rhine River and on to Berlin.

Enroute to said German capital city, the highest ranking military minions of the evil 56-year old Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, surrendered unconditionally on his behalf and theirs at Reims, France, on May 7, 1945 & again at Berlin on May 8th—VE (Victory in Europe) Day being declared on May 8th. The then Soviet Union celebrated Victory Day on May 9th.

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Primary Signatory 54-year old 4-star Colonel General Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl on Behalf of the German High Command

May 7-8, 1945

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Sidebar: Fascist Italy had already capitulated and its evil 61-year old fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his 33-year old mistress, Clara Petacci, had been murdered on April 28, 1945, their corpses then disgustingly hung upside down in the Milan, Italy, city square. No doubt, the foregoing brutal deaths further disheartened Hitler, who had been hiding in a Berlin bunker with his 33-year old mistress, Eva Braun. Hitler and Braun would be married just before their mutual suicides on April 30th, and their corpses then buried in a shallow grave, drenched in gasoline and burned beyond visual recognition. General Jodl would be arrested on May 23, 1945, stripped of rank & military accoutrements, charged & tried, executed by hanging on October 16, 1946, and subsequently cremated to prevent any graveside memorial to him by his family, friends & admirers (see German surrender document, above, signed by Jodl 2-3 days before his 55th birthday).

The longest serving president in U.S. history (12 years) and 50 years old when first inaugurated in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, failed to prepare America for war against Nazi Germany, Imperialist Japan & Fascist Italy in the 1930s during those countries' military buildups and cumulative rush toward World War II (1939-45). Roosevelt's vice president and successor in 1945 apparently didn't learn the foregoing lesson of unpreparedness.

Said 60-year old Harry S. Truman, failed to maintain America's military readiness in the 1940s following World War II, thus resulting in far too many American, South Korean and allied NATO casualties, when pitted against the evil 56-year old dictator of communist China, Mao Tse-tung, and his evil puppet dictator in North Korea, 38-year old Kim Il-sung.

Roosevelt was not a military veteran, and although Truman was a young officer during America's ill-advised and casualty ridden participation in World War I (1917-18) at the direction of congress and then 61-year old president, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Truman found himself no more prepared to be Constitutional commander in chief in 1945 than Roosevelt did in 1933. Said another way, neither Roosevelt nor Truman had the depth & breadth of strategic, operational & tactical military education and experience that Eisenhower possessed when he was first inaugurated in 1953.

Truman's lack of constitutional and professional military preparedness not only led him down the problematic road to the cold decision to further test atomic weaponry on two major cities in Japan, but also led him to ill-advisedly send ill-prepared American Soldiers headlong into the Korean Civil War without a Constitutional Congressional Declaration of War against either communist China or against communist North Korea.

In addition, Truman had an inferiority complex with regard to 70-year old Medal of Honor recipient and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan and the Far East, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.

As the war on the Korean Peninsula dragged on, Truman made perhaps the greatest strategic error of that conflict, i.e., he relied on the arrogant and unfounded opinion of MacArthur that Mao Tse-tung would not order Chinese communist forces to cross the Yalu River into Korea once American, allied and South Korean forces fought their way to and halted their advance at that critical geographic boundary between China and Korea.

The foregoing led MacArthur to publicly and ill-advisedly disagree with Truman on conventional military and atomic strategy, which in turn led Truman to force the 5-star general into retirement—the latter being Truman's greatest operational &  tactical error.

To make a long story short, Truman decided not to seek reelection to a second term as president. That in turn led to the Eisenhower presidency, whereby Ike brought the violence on the Korean Peninsula to a rapid close. However, no peace treaty was ever signed between Kim Il-sung and the NATO commander who succeeded MacArthur.

Nevertheless, America under President Eisenhower enjoyed the first 8 years of real peace in more than 10 years. Not only that, Ike did not fall for the French ploy of backfilling that country's ground & air forces in Viet Nam after their unequivocal defeat by 43-year old North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap and his conventional and guerilla forces in the north at Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954.

Of course, another president and parallel congresses would come along and ill-advisedly commit America's ground, air & naval forces to the unwinnable Viet Nam Counterinsurgency, an indeterminate conflict that America's congressional politicians would fail to unconditionally support, and which America's 50-year old General William Childs Westmoreland would never quite understand. As a matter of fact Westmoreland not only didn't understand the unwinnable nature of counterinsurgency warfare, but failed to come to grips with the fact that the by then 53-year old General Giap would continue to employ the brutal 13th Century playbook of 30-year old prince and general, Tran Hung Dao, for the reunification of Viet Nam.

Said Tran Hung Dao/Giap playbook would continue to be employed, no matter how many Vietnamese and Americans had to die in the process—and they did die in great numbers following the American-South Vietnamese coordinated murder of America's 62-year old puppet South Vietnamese president since 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem...as well as the assassination of 46-year old American president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, both unfortunate and untimely deaths occurring only three weeks apart in the month of November 1963!

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