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...with the negative advertising and meaningless character attacks that are so prevalent. This was the first time that I cast my vote in a presidential election, but the frustration caused by the decision-making process made me feel the experience was less than worthwhile. NHUT MINH LY St. Robert...
...public highlight of trip was Friday's speech before a group of students at Vietnam National University. The tableau showed the considerable historic and political distance the President traveled to get here. Clinton shared the stage with a large bust of "Uncle Ho" himself, Ho Chi Minh, and down one auditorium wall hung a banner (in Vietnamese) which spoke of the "wonderful Communist party's" support for the university. Clinton addressed head-on the issue of the "the conflict we call the Vietnam War and you call the American War." But ever the optimist, Clinton tried to put a positive...
Ever since Ho Chi Minh's 1968 Tet Offensive helped force President Lyndon Johnson out of that year's presidential race, the more sophisticated among America's enemies have paid close attention to U.S. domestic politics. And right now, they may like what they see: a nation of unrivaled power unable to choose a leader...
...season also promises some nonfiction works that are actually not about the Beatles, including Margaret Salinger's account of her reclusive writer-father and Ronald Reagan's letters to his wife. On tap too: major new biographies of Robert F. Kennedy, Donald Trump, Joe DiMaggio and Ho Chi Minh...
Kieu Viet Lien started at less than zero. She was born in prison in 1974. Her mother had been jailed as a Viet Cong agent. They were not released until April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces overran Saigon. Lien was schooled in the city, renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style...