From deep inside the foundations of our Republic's capital city
Friday, April 30, 2010
Fall of Saigon
This WaPo headline from 35 years ago says "Vietcong" but, actually, Saigon's 30,000 defending troops surrendered to 100,000 North Vietnamese troops who had converged on the city 55 days after twenty North Vietnamese Army divisions invaded the South.
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It's Friday, and that means that the Weekly State Department Blog Roundup is up - and you're on it!
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And how many days was it after the Democrat Congress refused to honor our commitment to the South Vietnamese by cutting off any funding to allow support of the RVN?
Good point. The RVN might have been doomed anyway by the very terms of the 1973 peace accords, but it didn't help that Congress declined President Ford's request for a supplemental appropriation of $300 million for a last-ditch defense of Saigon.
In his 1975 budget, President Nixon had requested $1.45 million for military aid to South Vietnam, but Congress cut his request to $700 million.
3 comments:
It's Friday, and that means that the Weekly State Department Blog Roundup is up - and you're on it!
Here is the link:
http://bit.ly/9MFF60
(If I quoted your text or used your photo(s) and you would rather I had not, please let me know. Please also be sure to check the link(s) that I put up to you, in order to verify that they work properly. If you would rather that I had not referenced you, and/or do not want me to reference you in the future, please also contact me.)
Thanks!
And how many days was it after the Democrat Congress refused to honor our commitment to the South Vietnamese by cutting off any funding to allow support of the RVN?
Eagle1,
Good point. The RVN might have been doomed anyway by the very terms of the 1973 peace accords, but it didn't help that Congress declined President Ford's request for a supplemental appropriation of $300 million for a last-ditch defense of Saigon.
In his 1975 budget, President Nixon had requested $1.45 million for military aid to South Vietnam, but Congress cut his request to $700 million.
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