Nguyen Van Thieu Quotes
You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
Citations
Nguyen, Van Thieu. "Transcript of Address by Thieu Announcing His Resignation as President." The New York Times, 22 Apr. 1975, p. 16.
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Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), became head of a military junta in 1965, and then president after winning an election in 1967. He established rule over South Vietnam until he resigned and left the nation a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate North Vietnamese victory.