Can’t We Let Saigons Be Saigons?
December 31, 2006 at 4:55 pm
For all the talk about Gerald Ford’s kindness and gentleness, he apparently could harbor venemous thoughts — for one of his own, no less.
From the Bob Woodward interview:
Q: You said it was the saddest day of your presidency when all the helicopters were –
A: I did, when they left the embassy in Saigon. Oh, to see those helicopters go out, come back, go out and come back. We saved the lives of not only our U.S. military personnel, our U.S. civilian personnel, but on my personal orders, saved the lives of South Vietnamese who had supported us, contrary to [Defense Secretary] Jim Schlesinger, who wanted to let everybody go to hell.
richarda said,
January 1, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
This from the man whose Chiefs of Staff were:
1. Haig
2. Rumsfeld
3. Cheney