[El Gran Salseron]

Actually, although I was quite young, I specifically remember Dwight Eisenhower, while he was Pres., giving a speech in which he said that we had to go to Vietnam because we needed the bauxite, among other natural resources. Why I remember the bauxite and not the other natural resources he mentioned I have no idea.

[neverdem]

He could well have said it. I'm was too young to be paying attention. It's still not readily accessible. Niether is the oil and gas.

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