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The Vietnam War - A History of the War
No Vietnamese ever attended any of the hot shot meetings in Washington about Vietnam policy. It was always Americans who held the meetings to decide what was going to be done in Saigon. When President Tew in 1974, sorry, 73, looked like refusing to sign the peace deal that Henry Kissinger had stitched up in Paris with an off Vietnamese, that was a serious discussion in Washington. Well, it's not too surprising that the Vietnamese feel humiliated. I mean, all human relations about who makes who feel good. And Americans did not make Vietnamese feel good. But one thing I do want to say, which I've also tried to get into my book, is that Americans today are sometimes almost