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Bui Diem

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[Wikipedia] Bùi Diễm was South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu from 1965 to 1972, then re-appointed ambassador-at-large and served until 1975. He played a key role in the last desperate attempt to secure US$700 million in military aid to defend South Vietnam against th

Quotes by Bui Diem

We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying…

Advantage

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The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to…

Bits

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The Americans are impatient by nature.

Impatient

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With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk…

Around the world

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I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They…

Equipment

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I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

Bad habit

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The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

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