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Nixon Reelection in 1972

Nixon campaigned on his Vietnamization policy, intense air responses against the North Vietnamese, and negotiations.Draft Peace treaty had been completed.Democratic Senator George McGovern campaigned on immediately ending the war and bringing all troops home.The last combat troop had already left Vietnam in November with little media notice.

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Nixon wins by Large Margin CICERO 2012*Nixon won the largest victory of any President in American history up to Ronald Reagans defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984.McGovern only won one state Massachusetts

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Nixon Wrote to the President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu With a new confidence from a crushing election victory, Nixon wrote Thieu.He assured him that the U.S. would take swift and severe retaliatory action if the North Vietnamese broke the proposed treaty.

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Thieu has Doubts

Congressional BacklashTed Kennedy & John KerryDespite Nixons landslide victory, Thieu has doubts that the U.S. will defend South Vietnam in the future.He sees a very hostile Congress, an anti-war (at times anti-American war effort) American media, and student anti-war sentiment.

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Nixon was Ready to Sign

Nixon looked to sign the peace treaty and viewed it as a victory over the North Vietnamese.The North Vietnamese objective was the conquest of South Vietnam and they had failed.The American war objective was to stop a North Vietnamese conquest and the U.S. had succeeded.

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Paris during December 1972

National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger went to Paris to meet the North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho.Le Duc Tho refused to negotiate and finish the Treaty.

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Nixon Threatens Linebacker II

He tells the North Vietnamese that the U.S. will launch a maximum bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor if they do not return to the negotiating table within 72 hours.

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Nixon Follows Through with the Christmas BombingHanoi did not respond.Most intense bombing of the war took place.Wave after wave of B-52s pounded military targets.The U.S. dropped over 100,000 bombs in only 11 days. CICERO 2012*

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The American media was horrified.

The Washington PostThe New York TimesThe Post described the bombing as the most savage and senseless act of war ever visited over a scant 10 days, by one sovereign people over another.

The NY Times reported that the bombing was indiscriminate and that its purpose was to cause heavy civilian casualties that would only stiffen Hanois resolve to fight on. The bombing would cause the U.S. shame in the eyes of the world.

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The bombing was not indiscriminate.

No civilians were targeted.Unlike WWII, plans were taken to avoid civilians.

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The North Vietnamese report that only 1,318 were killed.

754 B-52 sorties and 640 fighter bombers dropped over 20,000 tons (40 million pounds) were dropped from December 18 to December 29, with a 36 hour Christmas break.

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North Vietnamese Cave The bombing destroyed the North Vietnamese war making potential and the bombs were dropped near the North Vietnamese leaders offices for the first time.The North Vietnamese leadership caved and agreed to continue the Treaty negotiations by January 8, 1973.

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American P.O.W.s

Prisoner of War (POW) Captain Jeremiah Denton reported that when they heard the bombing they knew the war was almost over.They reported that the North Vietnamese knew the war was over and I received formal acknowledgement from them that they knew they had lost the war.

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North Vietnamese want to End the WarBecause of Linebacker II, the North Vietnamese leadership had lost confidence that they could continue and were willing to end the war on the American terms.

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Paris Peace Accords

The Treaty was signed January 27, 1973.The U.S. would leave Vietnam in 60 days.North Vietnamese would release all American P.O.W.sNorth Vietnamese could leave 150,000 troops in a corner of South Vietnam.Any offensive activity would be a violation of the Treaty and would meet another massive U.S. air attack.The government of South Vietnam and the (nonexistent) Viet Cong would make plans for reconciliation.

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South Vietnam would remain an independent nation that had withstood North Vietnamese attacks and all that North Vietnam could throw at it.

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FREE & INDEPENDENTSouth VietnamNorth Vietnam and the U.S. agreed that South Vietnams right to self determination:was sacred, inalienable, and respected by all nations.The South Vietnamese shall decide for themselves the future of South Vietnam through genuinely free and democratic elections.Foreign countries shall not impose any political tendency of personality on South Vietnam.

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Chinas RoleThe North Vietnam learned to respect Nixons resolve. Also, Communist China had moved away from total support of North Vietnam.The Communist Chinese became very captivated with Nixon and wanted good relations with the U.S. especially in light of their deteriorating relations with the Soviets.The U.S. even offered North Vietnam aid to rebuild. They rejected it.

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VICTORY!The Nixon administration was elated that they had forced the North Vietnamese to sign the treaty.He told everyone to not use the word Victory until the P.O.W.s returned.He did not want to provoke the chastised North Vietnamese.

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North Vietnamese Reject Peace PrizeSouth Vietnam had peace for the first time in a generation.Kissinger and Le Duc Tho both won the Nobel Peace Prize; though, the North Vietnamese refused the prize, because the Accords had publicly demonstrated their failure to meet their war objectives.

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American Troops Went Home.

In February 1973, 591 U.S. P.O.W.s came home.To the medias dismay, all thanked Richard Nixon.The P.O.W.s had been thoroughly tortured and abused, but still strongly supported the American war objectives.

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POWs had Endured TortureReal Admiral Jim Stockdale had even disfigured himself, so the North Vietnamese could not use him for propaganda.The P.O.W.s would rather endure torture when American peace activists came to proclaim the justice of the North Vietnamese causes.Captain (later Senator) John McCain refused to defame the war effort even when threatened with torture and offered freedom because his father was an American Navy Admiral. CICERO 2012*

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American Costs

3 million Americans served in the U.S. military in Vietnam over 11 years.(In the 2000 census, over 12 million claimed to have served in Vietnam)47,209 American troops and pilots died.There were also 11,000 American noncombat deaths.40,484 American military volunteers were killed; (70%)17,725 American draftees were killed. (30%)

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Deaths by Racial Background

81.1% of the men who died in Vietnam were white (includes, white Hispanics); 12.5% (7,241) were black; 5.2% (3,070) were Hispanic 1.2% belonged to other races.

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Military demographics in Vietnam

75% 0f the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers.25% (648,500) of the men who served in Vietnam were drafted. (Over 2/3 the U.S. armed forces in World War II were draftees, only 33% were volunteers.)82.73% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were white; 10.6% (275,000) were black; 5.67% (170,000) were Hispanic 1% belonged to other races.

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Military Socioeconomic Background

76% of the men who serves in Vietnam were from lower middle/working class backgrounds. 75% had family incomes above the poverty level; 50% were from middle income backgrounds. Some 23% of Vietnam servicemen had fathers in professional, managerial or technical fields. 79% of the men who served in Vietnam had a high school education or better when they entered the military service.(63% of Korean War vets and only 45% of WWII vets had completed high school upon separation.)

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Results of the War

South Vietnam and Cambodia were free independent (for the time being).Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia were free of a Communist threat and later became very prosperous.The Dominos had not fallen.

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Congress SurrendersAfter the Paris Peace Accords and the American promise to defend South Vietnam from any North Vietnam attacks:Large antiwar sentiment in Congress led to the (Senator Clifford P.) Case (R-NJ)-(Senator Frank) Church (D-ID) Amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill.It read that there would be no more American military involvement in Southeast Asia effective August 15, 1973. It had failed to pass in August 1972 before the election, but passed on January 26, 1973, one day before the North Vietnamese signed the Paris Peace Accords.

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Case-Church Amendment

The Congress in effect had pulled the U.S. out of the war, one day before the North Vietnamese had submitted to the Americans terms.The amendment passed the House 278-124 in the House and 64-26 in the Senate.The Congress could overturn any Nixon veto.Even though all combat forces were out of Vietnam, the Amendment sent a clear signal to North Vietnam that the U.S. would no longer defend South Vietnam and Cambodia with airstrikes after August 15, 1973.

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July 1973

The United States removed the mines from the Haiphong harbor that were blocking the North Vietnamese ports.North Vietnam then received a massive influx of new Soviet arms in violation of the Accords.

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War Powers Act

November 7, 1973Congress passed the War Powers Act that stated that the President must go to Congress within 90 days that he commits the United States to any military action abroad.All U.S. Presidents since have argued that the Act was unconstitutional and violated the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.All Presidents, however, have gone to Congress to commit troops, rather than cause a Constitutional crisis during a time of military necessity and to not disturb bipartisan support.The first President to ignore the War Powers Act was Barack Obama when he committed U.S. airpower to the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya in 2011 CICERO 2012*

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WatergateAs a result of the Watergate Scandal, Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency on August 9, 1974.The North Vietnamese Politburo met in October 1974 and agreed to invade South Vietnam in 1975.They believed Congress would never let the new American President, Gerald Ford to respond and defend South Vietnam with American airpower.

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BetrayalThe South Vietnamese had been receiving minimal military aid since the Accords.According to the Accords, they were allowed to receive replacement pieces, guns, ammo, and tanks, etc. at a one to one ratio. e.g. One broken or disabled tank could be replaced with one new tank.Americans replaced South Vietnamese supplies at a less than 1:1 ratio.Soviets and Communist Chinese replaces at a 4 to 5:1 ration in violation of the Accords.

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VETO PROOFDue to the Watergate scandal the elections of 1974 saw a landslide victory for the Democrats in Congress.The majority in Congress were strongly against any more involvement in Southeast Asia, despite earlier American guarantees.

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Congressional Foreign PolicyThe Veto proof Congress tried to run foreign policy a realm usually and Constitutionally the sphere of power of the Executive BranchIn the House:291 Democrats and 144 RepublicansIn the Senate:61 Democrats and 39 Republicans

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Testing the Waters: The RhinelandOn December 1974, the North Vietnamese Army made a minor incursion into the South at Phouc Long to see whether the U.S. would honor their commitment to South Vietnam.They only received strong rebukes from President Ford.

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War of ConquestNorth Vietnamese Politburo ordered a massive offensive to conquer South Vietnam.They plan for a two year war of conquest.

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Communists Can Roll On94th Congress took power in January 1975.They worked to unravel the Paris Peace Accords and stop all aid to South Vietnam and to Cambodia.The North Vietnamese were still being strongly supplied by the Soviets. The Communist Chinese were heavily supplying the Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

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North Vietnam had the 5th largest army in the world and a generous Soviet supplier.

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No Help from AmericaOn January 14, 1975, the Secretary of Defense, James Schlesinger testified that Congress was preventing the United States from fulfilling its promises to President Thieu and the South Vietnamese people for agreeing to sign the Peace Accords.

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ON JANUARY 21, 1975 PRESIDENT FORD TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT THE U.S. IS UNWILLING TO RE-ENTER THE WAR.

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April 4, 1975 General Fred C. Weyland, the US Army Chief of Staff sent a classified memorandum to President Ford. He reported that the Government of South Vietnam and their army were both in very good shape during the summer 1974. The U.S. had let the situation deteriorate.The South Vietnamese were now begging to help to survive.The present levels of American support would guarantee and Communist victory.The South Vietnamese felt abandoned and betrayed. CICERO 2012*

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Ford Pleads for South VietnamFord went to a Joint Session of Congress on April 10, 1975 to plead for an aid package for the South Vietnamese and the Cambodians.The speech was live on T.V. and radio

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Congress Says No!Chances of enduring peace after the Paris Peace Accords rested on two publicly stated premises:If necessary the U.S. would help sustain the terms of the Accords.The U.S. would provide adequate economic and military aid to South Vietnam.Ford said that time was quickly running out.The President asked for $722 million in economic aid and $250 million in economic and humanitarian aid.Also, the Cambodians had fought hard and Ford had asked for aid but was denied.Now it was too late.

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Ford explained:In Cambodia, the situation is tragic And, yet for the past three months, the beleaguered people of Phom Phen have fought on, hoping against hope that the United States would not desert them, but instead provide the arms and ammunition they so badly needed. . . In January, I requested food and ammunition for the brave Cambodians, and I regret to say that as if this evening, it may be too late.

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He ContinuedLet no potential adversary believe that our difficulties or our debates mean a slackening of our national will. We will stand by our friends, we will honor commitments, and we will uphold our countrys principals.

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Congress denies South Vietnam any aid.

Senator Mark Hatfield replied that he was appalled a man (Ford) could continue in such a bankrupt policy.

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Fall of Cambodia

In Cambodia, Premier Long Boret, We have no more material means. We feel completely abandoned.They U.S. offered evacuation and refuge to Cambodian officials.

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Prince Sirik Matak of Cambodia

Prince Sirik Matak responded to the American ambassador: Dear Excellency and Friend: I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment, that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty.

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He ContinuedYou have refused us you protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky. But mark it well that, if I die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans. Please except, Excellency, my dear friend my faithful and friendly sentiments.

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Fall of Phom Phen

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Killing FieldsOnce the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh they ordered all foreigners out of the country and all Cambodians out of all Cambodian cities.They murdered people in the middle of medical operations because they could not leave, or could not rise out of bed fast enough.

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They Destroy InstitutionsOn one day, 3 million people were herded into the countryside. No complaining, no talking under the penalty of death. The Khmer Rouges leader Pol Pot wanted to create a Communist utopia of agrarian workers.Influenced by 18th century French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Po Pot rejected modern society and all institutions except government.

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The Communists worked to destroy the institution of the family.

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A Communist ParadiseTo destroy the institution of the family, all family names were changed and birth names forbidden.Cambodians would be unable to locate relatives with new unknown names.

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Only 6,000 inmates in S-21; 20 survived.

ExterminationTorture & IntimidationAlmost all whom had serves in the previous government were tortured and then executed, as were their spouses.Designation S-21 became more feared than death.S-21 was the Khmer Rogues torture chamber.

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Destruction of ModernityAll street signs were white-washed to break-up old communities.All money was declared illegal.Rice was the only currency.

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Destruction of ReligionAtheism was the law.Practicing Buddhism or Catholicism or any other religion was punishable by death.

All books written before April 17, 1975 (the day Phom Phen surrendered) were burned.2 million Cambodians were slaughtered 1/3 the countrys population

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The Week Before the Communist Victory:

Senator and 1972 Presidential candidate, George McGovern stated: Cambodians would be better off if we stopped all aid to them and let them work things out in their own way.

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Cambodian PeaceRepresentative and future Connecticut Senator said: The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is not guns, but peace and the best way to accomplish that goal in by ending military aid now.

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Senate majority leader, Mike Mansfield: The cutoff of aid is in the best interest of Cambodians.

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The Same Fate Awaits SaigonMeanwhile, regarding South Vietnam, President Ford explained to the annual Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 19, 1975:Well it is my best judgment, based on experts within the administration, both economic and military, that if we had made available for the next three years reasonable sums of military aid and economic assistance, the South Vietnamese would have been viable.

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Ford Continues:

That it could have net any military challenges. This is another of the tragedies. For just a relatively small additional commitment in economic and military aid, relatively small compared to the 150 billion that we spent, that at the last minute of the last quarter (football analogy) we dont make that special effort, and now we are faced with this human tragedy. It just makes me sick every dayI hear about it, read about it, and see it.

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NY Times Opinion

North Vietnam is acting in massive violation of the military provisions of the 1973 truce, but President Thieu has just as clearly violated the political provisions of that accordthe provisions for establishing a coalition national Council [the Viet Cong] to create a new political constitution for South Vietnam. Even now spokesmen for North Vietnam and its ally in the south, the Provincial Revolutionary Government [the Viet Cong] are insisting that their immediate goal is to implement these provisions and thereby avoid one final battle in the streets of Saigon.

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On April 12 Thieu resigns as President of South Vietnam.On April 21 during a 90 minute TV explanation, before the CIA helps him escape to the Republic of China (Taiwan), Thieu read from the letter sent by Richard Nixon in 1972 pledging "severe retaliatory action" if South Vietnam was threatened. Thieu denounced the Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger and the U.S.

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"The United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible."

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Fall of Saigon As the North Vietnamese approached Saigon, the U.S. made secret plans to evacuate.Pentagon made contingency plans to evacuate if the North Vietnamese captured the airport.The warning would be a radio announcement that its 115o and rising. They would then play Bing Crosbys White Christmas at 15 minute intervals.

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EvacuationHelicopters evacuated American personal to the USS Blue Ridge off the coast of the South China Sea.Most of the South Vietnamese who had worked with the Americans were left to fend for themselves.

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The End of a Free VietnamOn April 30, 1975, the last ten U.S. Marines surrender.The North Vietnamese take the presidential palace.The Vietnam War Memorial is smashed.

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When reporting on the North Vietnamese conquest of Saigon and that the memorial had been smashed, Jack Perkins of NBC called it an excess of what money and bad taste could accomplish. I dont know if you call it the fall of Saigon or the liberation of Saigon.

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Boat People

Over 2 million North Vietnamese had earlier escaped the Communist government by moving south to South Vietnam.Now, hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese try to escape the Communists on rickety boats out into the middle of the sea.

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CBS was Ready for the End

CBS aired: Vietnam: A War That Is Finished tracing the war back to the Truman Administration in the 1940s. Oddly, it never mentions any part of the John Kennedy years of the early 1960s, when over 16,000 advisors are sent over to Vietnam. It also includes no interviews or clips of the tortured P.O.W.s released in 1973. However, they ran videos provided by the North Vietnamese showing that the Communists treated the P.O.W.s well.For CBS, the American heroes of the war are the news reporters who covered it; not the soldiers.

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CBS Creates an Imaginary Narrative

The CBS documentary never mentioned that South Vietnam had never invaded North Vietnam and that North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam on numerous occasions.CBS showed 2 amputees that came from mistaken firing of the South Vietnamese. Of the 80,000 amputees, nothing was mentioned that most had come from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fire. CICERO 2012*

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Ho Chi Minh City

The North Vietnamese renamed Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City.Similar to Cambodia, one million people are forced out of the city into the countryside.They are sent to Reeduction Camps to learn about the new Communists system.Those who objected were tortured or executed.

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A United Communist NationHundreds of Thousands were sentenced to hard slave labor and torture.Many were placed into soldiery confinement in small holes.Many were then executed. CICERO 2012*

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Control of all Communication

They outlawed typewriters.People had to submit a list of all the books they owned for approval.People were ordered to report all conversations deemed contrary to the Revolution.

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CONGRESS VOTES TO CONTINUE EVACUATING SOUTH VIETNAMESE WHO HAD WORKED FOR AND HELPED THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR.THE HOUSE REJECTS IT: 162 YEAH246 NAY

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North Vietnamese Listen to American Media

The conqueror of Saigon, Colonel Bui Tin, later discussed how, Everyday, out leadership would listen to world news over the radio to follow the growth of the American anti-war movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses CICERO 2012*

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We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

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What Nixon Would Have Done

When asked what would have happened if had not resigned, he said: I would have bombed the Blazes out of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Since Congress hadnt appropriated any funds, I probably would have been impeached for giving the military such an order, but so what? I would have saved thousands, no, let me correct that; millions of Southeast Asian lives.

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Bui Tin continues:

When Nixon stepped down because of Watergate we knew we would win. Phan Van Dong (Prime Minister of North Vietnam) said of President Ford that hes the weakest president in U.S. history, The people didnt elect him. Even if you give him candy, he doesnt dare to intervene in Vietnam again,

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Fords in a Weak Position

We tested Fords resolve by attacking Phuoc Long in January 1975. When Ford kept the B-52s in their hangers, out leadership decided on a big offensive against South Vietnam.

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PEACEMore People Died during the First Year of Peace than in the Whole Vietnam War! CICERO 2012*

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