It isn't the writer that changes the story, it is the viewpoint. Everyone had a different point of view when discussing any kind of politics. These differences can change the when, where, and how an event occurred. It is hard to look past a biased report, and focus only on factual documentation. When asking people about the war, you are bound to receive at least two different accounts of what happened, it works the same …showed first 75 words of 834 total…

…showed last 75 words of 834 total…a responsibility for the South to stop the spread of communism before their government was overthrown. The Diem government actually made key opportunities for the infiltration of communism into the South. Both the speech and the written document make North Vietnam out to be an entirely different country so as though it does not seem to be a civil war. They do not want the U.S. to look as though they shouldn't be around.