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You are correct on the fall of Saigon. The above article gets the dates correct, but it's presentation of the 'history' of Nam is extremely biased. My views of the same facts are quite different.
The withdrawal of all COMBAT troops happened under Nixon in 1973, but the fall of Saigon happened in 1975 after the non-peace treaty 'negotiated' by Kissinger collapsed completely in late 73 and all of 1974.
My views of Nam differ dramatically from the 'norm' of US residents - due much to much different news sources (ie. NON-USA media vs. VERY biased USA news sources ) during my time in Japan.
More background: There were INTENSE anti-USA riots in Japan when I was there - mainly the Zengakuran. There were a few times when we (armed forces families) were restricted to base due to some of the violence occuring in and around Tokyo. I remember seeing Zengakuran 'towers' at the North end of Tachikawa AFB runways (heavy prop C-141 et.al. air base). Those towers WERE a hazard to aircraft landing and taking off, and occasionally knocked out landing lights and caused other damage to our aircraft. Yokuska, a little further to the west, was the main base for jet aircraft and didn't have the same problem.
A possibly 'apocryphal' story about an American supposedly getting caught in one of the downtown Tokyo Zengakuran riots/demonstrations, was that he avoided getting badly beaten by speaking Russian fluently to the participants, who then linked arms with him. Amusing, might have been true, but probably not. *s*
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