"By the time the tanks of the People's Army of Vietnam smashed through the gates of Saigon's Presidential Place on April 30, 1975, America had already long before given up the fight to save Vietnam. Earlier in April, President Gerald Ford had urged Congress to provide aerial support for the retreating ARVN -- the South Vietnamese armed forces -- only to be rebuffed by a war-weary and Democrat-controlled House. Ford himself closed the books on the conflict when he announced on April 23 that the Vietnam War was over.
Not many people at the time when Ford made his announcement recalled the days when supporting Vietnam stood as a central plank in the effort to stem Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. Not many seemed to care that millions of people were about to be subjected to lives beyond endurance."
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