[LetsRok]

Congress and the President rewarded Viet Nam with free trade status WITHOUT a full accounting of those Nixon left behind.

What do you mean those "Nixon left behind"? Nixon wasn't even President when the Vietnam War ended when the last troops left in 1975.

[blam]

"What do you mean those "Nixon left behind"? Nixon wasn't even President when the Vietnam War ended when the last troops left in 1975."

Correct. It was Gerald Ford. The stair case that everyone used, the one on top of the embassy, to board the helicopters is now in the Gerald Ford library.