“I think the Vietnamese are better off in Vietnam.”

— George S. McGovern

In Newsweek May 5, 1975. Quoted by Quang X. Pham in Ford's Finest Legacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901070.html in the Washington Post 30 December 2006.

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