Vietnam 1975:
A few things happen during the Vietnam War in 1975. Vietnam’s president Thieu resigns during “a bitter and tearful 90 minute rambling TV speech to the people of South Vietnam. Thieu reads from the letter sent by Nixon in 1972 pledging "severe retaliatory action" if South Vietnam was threatened. Thieu condemns the Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger and the U.S. "The United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible." He is then ushered into exile in Taiwan, aided by the CIA.” Hue then falls to communists and communists take aim at Saigon. Since “US President Gerald Ford anticipated the fall of Saigon to Communist forces, he announces in New Orleans that as far as the US is concerned, the Vietnam War is "finished." And then on April 30, 1975 the last Americans left Vietnam and the war was finally over.
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