“I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.”

— Bob Hope

He arrived in Saigon on the day that Vietcong agents blew up an American officers' billet.
New York Times obituary, July 28, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28CND-HOPE.html?pagewanted=1

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