“I think uh…we lost everyday Vietnamese life in fighting the Communists, you know, and and no progress, we have to do something else, you can, we cannot have a more of the same, you know, every, every day, so we, we must change, yes.”

— Nguyen Khanh

Ngo Dinh Diem versus the drive to reform
1980s, Interview with Nguyen Khanh (1981)

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