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The council uh, forced me to leave the, the country. That was officially, but, in fact, you know, it's 'n... uh... there are many books writing of that, that, that uh incident and the American official in Saigon are very pleased at that time to see me uh out of the country.

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The French Colonial, you know... did not export too much their ideal of d—of democracy outside of the French frontier. Now, with the American people, you export too much your democracy and your... freedom, you know, all that, your way of life and you want to impose that uh in the country like Vietnam, it doesn — it doesn't, it cannot work. But, in some way, we better adapt and not adopt what you have.

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We, we respect very much what the American want to do uh... but, you know sometime the American way of life and the... uh American democracy maybe uh cannot work in a country like mine, you know, in South Vietnam. Uh... so, we, we can have the principle and adapt that in the country but we cannot adapt what you have here, you know, eh two houses, all that stuff, you know, and changing the president every four year. You have many people here who can be leader of the country. We have a few in Vietnam, a few who can uh you know uh lead the country because education, because the training, because all that uh, background that we must have, you know.

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Born: November 8, 1927
Died: January 11, 2013 (aged 85)
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