Word: thieu
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...less drastic position, promising to start negotiations with the Communists. The feeble old man, who everyone assumed could easily be moved aside for the good of the country, proved to be hard to move. To one caller trying to persuade him to step down, he maintained somewhat pompously: "Thieu ran away from destiny; it has now come...
...opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...
...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...
...later, having proved himself to be an ineffective administrator, and went into exile in Thailand. When he attempted to return in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance; he had to return, humiliated to Bangkok. Three years later, Thieu-in what he described as part of a move toward national reconciliation-invited Minh back to Saigon. There Minh bided his time, tending the orchid garden at his spacious villa and meeting regularly with many of South Viet Nam's dissident politicians and religious leaders...
...Saigonese paid remarkably little attention to the resignation of President Thieu. A day after his departure, he was virtually forgotten and hopes quickly focused on a political settlement that would somehow preserve the city from destruction. Despite Thieu's indictment of the U.S., most Vietnamese were still treating Americans with their customary politeness...