I just want to say as a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and listening to the gentlemans attack not only on the former Secretary of State but in particular reference to those who fought in Southeast Asia. I think there are a couple of points to be made. Recently. certain Members of this body visited some of the refugee camps in Thailand. where those people who were living in Cambodia or South Vietnam. and where the governments of North Vietnam have nowwe do not use the term in any way of "dominos"-coincidentally. the governments of South Vietnam and of Laos and of Cambodia fell to the Communist governments. and as those governments went in there and massacred and destroyed the city of Phnom Penh. and killed people who had the audacity to be able to read and write. and the children and women that escaped even to the border of Thailand. to visit 180.000 refugees that are living now in Thailand within mortar fire of the North Vietnamesedominated Cambodia. It is important to point out and fair I think at this juncture to say that when that Secretary of State or his President elected by the people of this country chose to attempt to give those people the opportunity to live under some semblance of freedom. that that is a cause that does not deserve our contempt necessarily. Second.
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