February 19, 2025

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  1. Ho Chi Minh seemed to personify Vietnam’s experience with French colonialism.

    His time in the West had left a deep impression on him, yet he retained his native identity and peasant appearance.

    He had studied and appropriated the ideas that had sparked revolutions in America and France in the eighteenth century as well as in Russia in 1917.

    Ho’s reputation as a learned ascetic devoted to the Vietnamese people contrasted with Bao Dai’s opulent affectations, philandering, and record of collaboration with the French and Japanese.

    – pp.33,34, Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, AND THE LIES THAT LED TO VIET NAM by H.R. McMaster

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