These are good people. they are hardworking people. and I think we have done the right thing in trying to help them. Incidentally. when we were in the Soviet Union. we saw that in the Soviet Union and in Indochina they were very concerned that the 7th Fleet was picking these people up. They asked. "Why didnt we send them merchant vessels?" I pointed out that pictures of these people overflowing the boats and falling into the water were horrifying the American people who were demanding that the President act immediately to help these refugees. The President had to do something dramatic to show the world and the American people that we were helping these people. Sending the 7th Fleet was the most dramatic and the most effective thing we could have done.
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