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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 2350005, member: 7511"] As a young man Ho Chi Minh lived and worked for a time in Boston & NYC. His efforts to ally himself with the U.S. started many years before Truman, when he attempted to meet with Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1945 Ho instructed General Giap to rescue downed American pilots fighting the Japanese. Major Allison Kent Thomas of the OSS helped train General Giap's fledgling army and sent a number of reassuring messages back to the US government generally dismissing Ho's affiliation with the communists and praising his pro-American posture. When Ho wrote Vietnam's Declaration of Independence from the Japanese in 1945, he used a familiar phrase, " All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Ho was no Thomas Jefferson. He was a communist, but one that was receptive to an alliance with America. [/QUOTE]