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...South Vietnamese doubt that essentially all this means capitulation to the Communists. Nor does the President of the U.S. doubt it. The Ford Administration was making its own capitulation???to the insurmountable resistance both in Congress and among the public to continued U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. In the wake of Thieu's resignation, the President told 5,000 cheering Tulane students in New Orleans: "Today America can again regain the sense of pride that existed before Viet Nam, but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished?as far as America is concerned." Contrary to some...
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