Vietnam and the

Vietnam and the [U.S.] Presidency Conference

JFK Presidential Library, Boston, March 10-11, 2006

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." –Abraham Lincoln

"You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences." –Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." –John F. Kennedy, 1961

"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." –Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

"You can count on us." –Richard M. Nixon, 1973

"Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam." –Gerald R. Ford, 1975

April 30th, 1975

Books about the People Most Affected by the War in Vietnam

"How come they didn't invite us?"

Participation in Absentia

"Screw the French"

"Who Wants to be Graham Greene?"

"Advisers for Asians"

"Coup-de-Jour"

"Misunderstanding in Me Lie"

"Hanoi Hannah and Saigon Sam"

"Easter Service Anyone?"

"Private Papers and Secret Sessions"

"801 U.S. POWs for 25 Million Indochinese"

"Cut and Run"

"A White Christmas in April"

"Abused and Abandoned"

Special Events

Screenings of "American Polyps Now" and "Paris by Lies 73"

"Run for Your Life" Saigon Memorial 5K

(Starts at the old DAO compound and finishes at the former U.S. embassy.)

The Legacies of Vietnam

Three million Vietnamese, 58,400 Americans, reeducation camps, boat people, human rights violations and a "Syndrome"

Thanks to five U.S. presidents, 1954-1975, and another who pardoned draft dodgers but ignored the plight of America's allies held in reeducation/prison camps.

In Memoriam

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