Book sheds light on Ho Chi Minh’s diplomatic interactions with US presidents
A book entitled "Bac Ho voi cac Tong thong My" (Uncle Ho with US Presidents) has freshly been released, giving insights into the late President's diplomatic efforts to seek and set up relations with the US since the early years of his journey to seek a way for national liberation worldwide until his last years as the leader of the Vietnamese revolution for independence.
The book "Bac Ho voi cac Tong thong My" (Uncle Ho with US Presidents) by Associate Professor, Dr. Vo Van Loc. (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – A book entitled "Bac Ho voi cac Tong thong My" (Uncle Ho with US Presidents) has freshly been released, giving insights into the late President's diplomatic efforts to seek and set up relations with the US since the early years of his journey to seek a way for national liberation worldwide until his last years as the leader of the Vietnamese revolution for independence.
Compiled by Associate Professor, Dr. Vo Van Loc, the eight-chapter book comprises officialletters, dispatches and articles, which is divided into two parts.
The first part covers the period between 1919 and 1946, during which President Ho Chi Minh sent letters to three US Presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. The letters demonstrated the Vietnamese President’s trust, sincerity,patience, reasonableness, and his wish to establish friendly and alliedrelations with the US.
However, the expectations of Ho Chi Minh and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam were not realised as the US Presidents failed to get the messages that the Vietnamese leader wanted to deliver.
The second part deals with the period from 1947 to 1969 with four US presidents DwightD. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. During this time, theUS went from indirect intervention to directly waging a war infringing on Vietnam’sterritorial integrity, right to self-determination, independence, and freedom. In such circumstances, PresidentHo Chi Minh had to change his attitude. He continued to send letters and telegrams,among other forms, to carry out a flexible but resolute diplomatic struggle tocondemn and criticise aggressive actions of the US government. At the sametime, he continued expressing the goodwill and efforts of the Vietnamese Government toseek a peaceful solution, ending the war and bloodshed for both peoples.
The book has testified to a fact that President Ho Chi Minh is a genius diplomat, who founded the modern diplomacy of Vietnam./.
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On June 5, 1911, a young man named Nguyen Tat Thanh, who later became the beloved President Ho Chi Minh of the Vietnamese people, under the name of Van Ba got on the French ship Amiral Latouche Tréville to depart Nha Rong Wharf in the then Saigon, starting a 30-year odyssey to seek a path for saving the country from colonialism.
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Seventy-five years have passed but the appeal for patriotic emulation made by President Ho Chi Minh on June 11, 1948 - when the country was fighting to defeat French colonialism - has inspired patriotism and promoted national solidarity among Vietnamese nationals with a view to protecting and developing the nation.
During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh paid much attention to the patriotic emulation movement, and himself was an exemplary model. From Uncle Ho’s example, many bourgeois in Hanoi at that time donated money and gold to the Government and joined the resistance war. One story of an expatriate family in the UK features precious memories of Uncle Ho.
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The book "Bac Ho voi cac Tong thong My" (Uncle Ho with US Presidents) by Associate Professor, Dr. Vo Van Loc. (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn) 
