Mr. President. sometimes I despair over the misinterpretation of ones public position that is executed through deliberate distortion by political enemies combined with careless or subservient interpretive reporting by the press. A case in point is my own publicly expressed conviction that most of the Vietnamese refugees who fled to this country in panic would be better off in their own country. I continue to believe that our official spokesmen did a great disservice to the refugees by terrifying them into flight after widespread warnings that there would be a massive slaughter of the civilian population if the opposition forces won. This did not happen to Americans in the 1860s after our own Civil Wtr. although it was as bitterly fought as the Vietnamesecivil war. Nor did it happen to those who fought successfully on the French side in Vietnam 20 years ago.
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