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“Không phải là thi sĩ, nhưng vào những buổi chiều tháng một ở Hà Nội, người nào cũng muốn làm thơ: trời lạnh có gió mưa, nghe tiếng rao sì-cốc-bểu là một loại bánh cuốn hấp, người ta cũng thấy có một cái gì gợi cảm; cái xe tay trùm áo tơi cánh gà cũng có thể là một đề tài để cho người đa tình suy nghĩ hay một cái quán bên đường he hé mở để cho người đi qua nghe thấy một cái lò than hồng tráng bánh cuốn có mấy người ngồi ăn trong làn khói mờ mờ như sương cũng có thể làm cho ta tưởng tượng bao nhiêu cuộc hợp hoan chờ đợi…”

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Author:Vũ Bằng
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“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”

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Author:Don Feder
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“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.”

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Author:Anne Waldman
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“The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi
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“The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.”

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Author:William J. Duiker
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“Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.”

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Author:George Will
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