Nixon was indebted to Thieu for blocking a peace agreement when a Democratic administration was in office. Feeling empowered, Thieu repeated his 1968 act in late 1972, ...

But Thieu was uneasy, so Nixon gave him assurances of military support in the event of another offensive. In June 1973, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger went further and publicly re-affirmed ...

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US troops pull out of Vietnam. Like Zelensky, President Thieu protested these arrangements. On his resignation in 1975, he said: At the time, there was collusion between the communists and the ...

Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, ...

The full quote reportedly goes like this: “Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem [the first president of South Vietnam who had been deposed and killed in a CIA ...

President Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam at Midway Island, June 8, 1969. National Archives via Wikimedia Commons. THE NEW YORK SUN Published: Mar. 4, 2025 06:49 AM ETUpdated: ...

It was a deal forced on South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Though heavily pressured by the Nixon administration, he—to his great credit and to Nixon’s irritation—bravely fought the ...