" A year later, the only freestanding foreign-sponsored academic institution in Vietnam, attached to the Ho Chi Minh City Economics University, is a project of Harvard's Institute for International Development and the American Council of Learned Societies. It is called the Fulbright Center [after Senator Fulbright I presume], and was dedicated in November of 1995, four months after normalization. On that occasion, Thomas Vallely, himself a former marine who served in Vietnam in 1969 and part of 1970, told the audience, "This teaching center is a gift to the Vietnamese people from the American people, a gift conceived by John Kerry, the senator from Massachusetts." Vallely went on to acknowledge John McCain as well: "I think that if we could overhear the voices of those silent American veterans whose names are engraved on the black granite wall in Washington, they would agree with Senator McCain and say that it was time for Americans to remember the many silent Vietnamese veterans and to reach out toward Vietnam in a peace of the brave."
This guy is a real a$$hole. I wouldn't be surprised if he was somehow involved in either the business opened by Kerry's Forbes cousin in Vietnam, or had some other monetary investment over there.
It warms the cockles of my heart to know that Kerry made it a priority to provide an educational institute in his fatherland, but never once did anything for education here in his 20 years in the Senate.
I think you're onto something as a campaign tactic...Education for foreigners...Not for USA students. You should dash off that nugget to the RNC.