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...manage to resume careers with relative ease, though often in circumstances that they could never have imagined in their previous lives. Dr. Diem Duc Nguyen, 39, a South Vietnamese army surgeon who left Saigon on a refugee ship in 1975, tried working for a private ambulance service rescue squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers...
What Rambo is being invited to is his least favorite kind of party, a no-win situation. Ostensibly, the unnamed clandestine agency that is paying his per diem wants him to settle, once and for all, the question of whether or not the Vietnamese are still holding American POWs. To that end, Rambo is instructed to parachute into the jungle and take pictures that will prove a known prison camp is either in use or abandoned. What his sponsors do not tell him is that the only news that is acceptable to them is that there are no enslaved G.I.s...
While much can be taken on Nixon's authority as a former President, he offers no footnotes and only cursory citations of sources. One wonders, for instance, just how he can be certain that President Ngo Dinh Diem would have outpolled Ho Chi Minh or any other opponent in a hypothetical free election in South Viet Nam. His book is less a history than an impassioned pleading against both neo-isolationists who believe the U.S. has no stake beyond self-defense and confrontational rightists who see a Soviet hand guiding every local upheaval in the Third World. To Nixon, Viet...
...sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability from which South Viet Nam never recovered. He faults Lyndon Johnson for halting bombing, rather than intensifying it, to encourage diplomacy; for fighting a limited war, seeking "not to win, but only not to lose"; and, above all, for failing to blockade...
...President Kennedy shrewdly appointed him Ambassador to South Viet Nam, in part to maintain Republican support for U.S. policy there. Only 13 weeks later, Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and subsequently slain. Though various accounts linked the U.S. to the coup against the recalcitrant Diem, Lodge always maintained that he had done nothing either to "stimulate or thwart" the overthrow. Lodge resigned in 1964, took part in the presidential election campaign and then returned to Saigon, becoming involved in a peace effort that ultimately failed. He continued to field diplomatic assignments for many more years...