Ambassador John Negroponte

Yeah, first let me just say, just a small correction. Chuck, you said I'd been ambassador to Vietnam. I've been an ambassador five times, but not to Vietnam. I got there when I was 24 years old. When I got there in 1964, after studying Vietnamese in Washington for a number of months, we had about 20,000

Yeah, first let me just say, just a small correction. Chuck, you said I'd been ambassador to Vietnam. I've been an ambassador five times, but not to Vietnam. I got there when I was 24 years old. When I got there in 1964, after studying Vietnamese in Washington for a number of months, we had about 20,000

Yeah, first let me just say, just a small correction. Chuck, you said I'd been ambassador to Vietnam. I've been an ambassador five times, but not to Vietnam. I got there when I was 24 years old. When I got there in 1964, after studying Vietnamese in Washington for a number of months, we had about 20,000

trainers there no people who were designated as combat troops let me back you up a match you were doing a quick language school where were you working and what was the what did you think your mission was that you had to take well i was a career foreign service officer and i had okay started my career in 1960, the fall of 1960. I'd had an assignment to Hong Kong. I went back to Washington.

trainers there no people who were designated as combat troops let me back you up a match you were doing a quick language school where were you working and what was the what did you think your mission was that you had to take well i was a career foreign service officer and i had okay started my career in 1960, the fall of 1960. I'd had an assignment to Hong Kong. I went back to Washington.

trainers there no people who were designated as combat troops let me back you up a match you were doing a quick language school where were you working and what was the what did you think your mission was that you had to take well i was a career foreign service officer and i had okay started my career in 1960, the fall of 1960. I'd had an assignment to Hong Kong. I went back to Washington.

And they soon, because things were hotting up in Vietnam, asked me to take a 44-week, it wasn't so short, 44-week language training course. I went out there to the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as a so-called provincial reporter. And I did a lot Things like what a journalist would do. I was assigned to cover six different provinces in South Vietnam.

And they soon, because things were hotting up in Vietnam, asked me to take a 44-week, it wasn't so short, 44-week language training course. I went out there to the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as a so-called provincial reporter. And I did a lot Things like what a journalist would do. I was assigned to cover six different provinces in South Vietnam.

And they soon, because things were hotting up in Vietnam, asked me to take a 44-week, it wasn't so short, 44-week language training course. I went out there to the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as a so-called provincial reporter. And I did a lot Things like what a journalist would do. I was assigned to cover six different provinces in South Vietnam.

There was 42 of them in all, six or seven. I would go out every week. I'd collect information on the economic, political, diplomatic, security, military, etc. situation in the field. Then I'd come back. Die nächste Woche schreibe ich meine Berichte, mache meine Arbeiten und all das. Wir hatten kein Internet und all das, du weißt das. Wir hatten auch keine guten Telefonnummern.

There was 42 of them in all, six or seven. I would go out every week. I'd collect information on the economic, political, diplomatic, security, military, etc. situation in the field. Then I'd come back. Die nächste Woche schreibe ich meine Berichte, mache meine Arbeiten und all das. Wir hatten kein Internet und all das, du weißt das. Wir hatten auch keine guten Telefonnummern.

There was 42 of them in all, six or seven. I would go out every week. I'd collect information on the economic, political, diplomatic, security, military, etc. situation in the field. Then I'd come back. Die nächste Woche schreibe ich meine Berichte, mache meine Arbeiten und all das. Wir hatten kein Internet und all das, du weißt das. Wir hatten auch keine guten Telefonnummern.

Also musste man eigentlich physisch zurück zur Ambasie kommen und Telegramme und so weiter schreiben. Das ist es, worauf ich gekommen bin. Die Nordvietnamiens hatten noch nicht angefangen, normale Nordvietnamiens-Armee-Truppen zu senden. into South Vietnam.

Also musste man eigentlich physisch zurück zur Ambasie kommen und Telegramme und so weiter schreiben. Das ist es, worauf ich gekommen bin. Die Nordvietnamiens hatten noch nicht angefangen, normale Nordvietnamiens-Armee-Truppen zu senden. into South Vietnam.

Also musste man eigentlich physisch zurück zur Ambasie kommen und Telegramme und so weiter schreiben. Das ist es, worauf ich gekommen bin. Die Nordvietnamiens hatten noch nicht angefangen, normale Nordvietnamiens-Armee-Truppen zu senden. into South Vietnam.

I got there in May of 64, the first time we detected North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam as part of their decision to escalate the situation in the South. Their tactics so far had not succeeded in causing South Vietnam to fall into their communist hands. So they decided to send their army and we captured a couple of their people. We are the South Vietnamese military, actually. im Juni 1964.

I got there in May of 64, the first time we detected North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam as part of their decision to escalate the situation in the South. Their tactics so far had not succeeded in causing South Vietnam to fall into their communist hands. So they decided to send their army and we captured a couple of their people. We are the South Vietnamese military, actually. im Juni 1964.

I got there in May of 64, the first time we detected North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam as part of their decision to escalate the situation in the South. Their tactics so far had not succeeded in causing South Vietnam to fall into their communist hands. So they decided to send their army and we captured a couple of their people. We are the South Vietnamese military, actually. im Juni 1964.

Das war also der Anfang des Errichtens eines großen Nordvietnames, der im Süden war. Am Ende des Krieges, 1975, gab es etwa 14 Divisionen. von Nord-Vietnamiens Truppen in Süd-Vietnamiens. Also, was als Guerilla-Wahl beginnt, endet wirklich als konventionelles militärisches Verletzen von Saigon durch die Nord-Vietnamiens-Armee.

Das war also der Anfang des Errichtens eines großen Nordvietnames, der im Süden war. Am Ende des Krieges, 1975, gab es etwa 14 Divisionen. von Nord-Vietnamiens Truppen in Süd-Vietnamiens. Also, was als Guerilla-Wahl beginnt, endet wirklich als konventionelles militärisches Verletzen von Saigon durch die Nord-Vietnamiens-Armee.