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If I do not say that you were defeated by the communists in Vietnam, I must modestly say that you did not win either. But you found an honourable way… - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
" "If I do not say that you were defeated by the communists in Vietnam, I must modestly say that you did not win either. But you found an honourable way out. And at present, when our army lacks weapons, ammunition, helicopters, aircraft and B-52s (bombers), you ask us to do an impossible thing, like filling up the ocean with stones…
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About Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), became head of a military junta in 1965, and then president after winning an election in 1967. He established rule over South Vietnam until he resigned and left the nation a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War.
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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