Robert Komer
Robert William" Blowtorch Bob" Komer( February 23, 1922 – April 9, 2000) was a key figure in the pacification effort to win South Vietnamese" hearts and minds" during the Vietnam War, heading Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support.
Hearts and minds (Iraq)
Hearts and Minds was a public relations campaign used in the Iraq War( 2003- 2011).
Lee Richardson (actor)
Lee Richardson( September 11, 1926, Chicago, Illinois – October 2, 1999, New York City) was an American character actor who frequently appeared in the films of Sidney Lumet.
Richardson appeared in such films as" Brubaker Prince of the CityPrizzi's HonorTiger Warsaw The Fly IIQ&A The Exorcist IIIDaniel" and" A Stranger Among Us" and such television series as" Law& Order" and" Hearts and Minds".
He also narrated" Network" and appeared in the television film" Skylark".
He appeared in an uncredited role as Franklin D. Roosevelt in" Truman".
Richardson died of cardiac arrest on October 2, 1999 in New York City, aged 73.
A Bad Son
A Bad Son is a 1980 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet.
Winning hearts and minds
Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.
The use of the term" hearts and minds" to reference a method of bringing a subjugated population on side, was first used by Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey( a French general and colonial administrator) as part of his strategy to counter the Black Flags rebellion along the Indochina- Chinese border in 1895.
More famously, it was used during the Malayan Emergency by the British who employed practices to keep the Malayans' trust and reduce a tendency to side with ethnic Chinese communists, in this case, by giving medical and food aid to the Malays and indigenous tribes.
Boris
Hembry, a member of the Federal War Council, recalled:" Although many believe the Americans to have coined the phrase[ winning hearts and minds] in Vietnam .., I maintain that those words were first used simply as a throw- away remark by[ Officer Administering Malaya] Del Tufoe( sic) while we were chatting informally prior to a Federal War Council meeting he chaired in November 1951 ... I repeated the phrase during the ensuing meeting".
According to another account:
A criticism at the time was that"[ t] here is much talk of fighting for" the hearts and minds" of Malayans, but only blind obedience is demanded of them".
During the 1960s, the United States engaged in a" Hearts and Minds" campaign in Vietnam.
The program was inspired by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
He used some version of the phrase" hearts and minds" a total of 28 times.
In ten of these instances, Johnson inverted the words and used the phrase" minds and hearts."
The first time he used the phrase in his presidency was on 16 January 1964, and the last time was 19 August 1968.
In his usage he addressed very different audiences, including heads of state, congressmen, and the American people.
Also, Johnson referred to the" hearts and minds" of disparate groups, including the above- mentioned audiences and even humanity as a whole.
His use of the phrase is most commonly taken from the speech" Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc." on 4 May 1965.
On that evening he said," So we must be ready to fight in Viet- Nam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there.
By helping to bring them hope and electricity you are also striking a very important blow for the cause of freedom throughout the world."
A similar" Hearts and Minds" campaign in Iraq was carried out during the 2003 invasion and occupation of that country.
American use of the phrase is most likely based on a quote of John Adams, the American Revolutionary War patriot and second president of the United States, who wrote in a letter dated 13 February 1818:
" The Revolution was effected before the War commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ….
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution".
The phrase," hearts and minds" is also found in a biblical quotation, in Philippians 4: 7, although that passage does not address the" winning" of hearts and minds as a tactic.
The phrase" winning hearts and minds" has come to be used, often in a derisory sense, to refer to any endeavor by the United States to influence public opinion in foreign countries.
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet( 23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Hearts and Minds (film)
Hearts and Minds is a 1974 American documentary film about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis.
The film's title is based on a quote from President Lyndon B. Johnson:" the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there".
The movie was chosen as the winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 47th Academy Awards presented in 1975.
The film premiered at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
Commercial distribution was delayed in the United States due to legal issues, including a temporary restraining order obtained by one of the interviewees, former National Security Advisor Walt Rostow who had claimed through his attorney that the film was" somewhat misleading" and" not representative" and that he had not been given the opportunity to approve the results of his interview.
Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the picture, which forced the producers to purchase back the rights and release it by other means.
The film was shown in Los Angeles for the one week it needed to be eligible for consideration in the 1974 Academy Awards.
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Hearts and Minds (Vietnam War)
Hearts and Minds( Vietnam) or winning hearts and minds refers to the strategy and programs used by the governments of Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people and to help defeat the Viet Cong insurgency.
Pacification is the more formal term for winning hearts and minds.
In this case, however, it was also defined as the process of countering the insurgency.
Military, political, economic, and social means were used to attempt to establish or reestablish South Vietnamese government control over rural areas and people under the influence of the Viet Cong.
Some progress was made in the 1967 – 1971 period by the joint military- civilian organization called CORDS, but the character of the war changed from an insurgency to a conventional war between the armies of South and North Vietnam.
North Vietnam won in 1975.
Pacification or hearts and minds objectives were often in diametric opposition to the strategy of firepower, mobility, and attrition pursued by the U.S. from 1965 to 1968.
Rather than the search and destroy strategy the U.S. followed during those years, hearts and minds had the priority of" hold and protect" the rural population and there by gain its support for the government of South Vietnam.
Peter Davis (director)
Peter Frank Davis( born January 2, 1937), is an American filmmaker, author, novelist and journalist.
His film" Hearts and Minds", about American military action in Vietnam, won the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award in 1974.
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds may refer to:

Question: Are the directors of films A Bad Son and Hearts And Minds (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no