9/27/2020

AMY CONEY BARRETT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM/WAR: “Hanoi Dick [Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)], who lied for years by saying he was a war hero in Vietnam, and was never even there (Impeach him!), should not be entitled to a vote on anything of importance [the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett]!” ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September […]

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6/11/2020

2A/CRIME/ENDORSEMENT/MILITARY/TAXES/VETS: “Few people have ever fought as strongly for Iowa as Senator @JoniErnst! A combat Veteran, her service to Iowa and our Country is remarkable! Joni is Strong on Crime, our Military, Vets, Low Taxes and will protect your #2A at all times… …Unlike her Radical Liberal opponent, Theresa Greenfield, and Theresa’s failed record in […]

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6/6/2019

ASIA/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving some manufacturing out of China, but much of it remains outside of the United States. Instead, a number of other countries are benefiting from Trump’s trade war, according to data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday [6-6-19]. US imports from Vietnam are up 38% […]

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6/5/2019

HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “On the 75th anniversary of a defining battle of the defining war of human history so far, it’s clear that military service has never been less important to American voters. President Donald Trump, who is in Europe to commemorate D-Day, felt completely comfortable explaining his own lack of service in Vietnam because […]

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4/11/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Trump said on Thursday [4-11-19] that he would be open to a third summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, suggesting he is keen to revive a high-stakes engagement that was abruptly suspended six weeks ago after the two leaders failed to strike a nuclear disarmament deal in […]

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2/29/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS/VIETNAM: “On this Vietnam War Veterans Day, we celebrate the brave Vietnam Veterans and all of America’s Veterans. Thank you for your service to our great Nation!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, 2019 7:48 am […]

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3/1/2019

NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Great to be back from Vietnam, an amazing place. We had very substantive negotiations with Kim Jong Un – we know what they want and they know what we must have. Relationship very good, let’s see what happens!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 1, 2019 7:49 am […]

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2/28/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday [2-28-19] that North Korea is not ready to wind down its nuclear weapons program, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he understands how much work the country has put into its arsenal. Trump spoke with Hannity after two days of meetings on denuclearization with North Korean […]

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2/28/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “THANK YOU to our generous hosts in Hanoi this week: President Trong, Prime Minister Phuc, and the wonderful people of Vietnam! https://t.co/AMqF0dfRhP“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 28, 2019 5:25 am […]

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2/27/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [2-27-19] praised Vietnam for working to reduce the trade imbalance with the U.S. as Vietnamese carriers signed deals to buy Boeing jets and technologies valued at more than $20 billion. VietJet is buying 100 Boeing 737-Max jets and 215 GE/CFM joint venture engines, and Bamboo Airways […]

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2/27/2019

DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Republicans may want to re-think one of their planned 2020 campaign themes: It seems that President Donald Trump has met a ‘socialist’ country he actually likes. In recent months Trump has repeatedly cited what he calls the growing threat of socialism in an effort to tarnish leftist Democrats eyeing the Oval Office […]

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2/27/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VIETNAM: “With President Donald Trump and his senior aides halfway around the world, the White House’s political allies held down the home front against a blistering attack back in Washington. The president’s sons, advisers and friends collectively unloaded on Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen as he delivered explosive testimony […]

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2/26/2019

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “This week’s second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un takes place in a highly symbolic location: Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. For the Trump administration, the venue appears to be intended as a symbol of free-market victory: Vietnam’s economy has thrived as it has […]

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2/26/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Trump arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday [2-26-19] to discuss denuclearization with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, capping off months of threats and weapons tests, recriminations and rapprochements. As the men prepared to meet for the second time in eight months, their avowed goal of achieving a lasting peace […]

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2/26/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “When he vowed to ‘solve’ the North Korea problem just before his inauguration two years ago, President Trump made clear he meant eliminating its nuclear arsenal. But on the eve of a second meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the president sounds prepared to accept much less, at least […]

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2/26/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon – Very Interesting!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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2/25/2019

NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Trump declared on Monday [2-25-19] morning that he expects a ‘very tremendous summit’ later this week with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, suggesting again that his eventual goal is to convince Mr. Kim to abandon his nuclear weapons. Mr. Trump’s comments, at a breakfast meeting with the nation’s governors, […]

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2/25/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Meeting for breakfast with our Nation’s Governors – then off to Vietnam for a very important Summit with Kim Jong Un. With complete Denuclearization, North Korea will rapidly become an Economic Powerhouse. Without it, just more of the same. Chairman Kim will make a wise decision!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 25, […]

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2/19/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “A week before another high-profile summit with Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said Tuesday [2-19-19] he’s in ‘no rush’ to have North Korea denuclearize – as long it continues to hold off on testing of nuclear weapons and missiles…Trump flies next week to Hanoi, Vietnam, for two days of meetings […]

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2/18/2019

NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “A senior North Korean official known as Kim Jong-un’s ‘butler’ has begun scouting hotels, factory sites and resorts in Vietnam ahead of the North Korean leader’s highly anticipated summit meeting with President Trump in Hanoi next week. The official, Kim Chang-son, who serves as Mr. Kim’s de facto chief of staff, […]

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2/8/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump said Friday [2-8-19] that he will hold his second summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Hanoi and predicted that the authoritarian country would someday become ‘a great Economic Powerhouse’ under Kim’s leadership. In a pair of tweets, Trump praised Kim and said his representatives had just […]

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2/8/2019

NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump said Friday [2-8-19] night that a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 27 and 28…Trump first announced during Tuesday’s [2-5-19] State of the Union address that he would meet Kim in Vietnam for further talks […]

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2/8/2019

NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong Un. It will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 & 28. I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim & advancing the cause of […]

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2/6/2019

MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Feb. 27 and 28, the latest sign of thawing tensions between two leaders who had publicly traded insults and threats of military confrontation. Trump announced the meeting Tuesday [2-5-19] night during the State of the Union […]

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12/26/2018

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam. For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about, and who made the diagnosis, have remained a mystery, with Mr. Trump […]

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12/15/2018

CALIFORNIA/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Anti-Trump sentiment helped Democrats topple every Republican House member in Orange County last month in the storied California conservative stronghold. Now, a Trump administration push to deport Vietnamese nationals is compounding the party’s problems, possibly cementing the loss of a coastal county that had long been the epicenter of Republican power in […]

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12/8/2018

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Watched Da Nang Dick Blumenthal on television spewing facts almost as accurate as his bravery in Vietnam (which he never saw). As the bullets whizzed by Da Nang Dicks head, as he was saving soldiers….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 8, 2018 1:58 pm […]

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1/25/2018

CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/JAMES MATTIS/NAVY/VIETNAM: “In a move likely to irritate China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier will probably visit Vietnam in March for the first time since the war, U.S. and Vietnamese officials said Thursday [1-25-18]. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart discussed a plan for a carrier visit to Da Nang in March, […]

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11/9/2017

TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Visiting Vietnam for the first time, President Trump arrived for an economic summit meeting on Friday [11-10-17] in a country still grappling with the legacy of its war with the United States two generations ago — land mines and Agent Orange, and some three million people killed. Yet here in Vietnam, […]

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6/1/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “When President Donald Trump pulled out of a 12-country free-trade accord in January, it upended the plans of banker-turned-entrepreneur Rose Tran in Vietnam. Ms. Tran had raised $50 million to set up a suit factory in Ho Chi Minh City, betting on the increased access to markets like the U.S. that […]

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5/31/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “U.S. President Donald Trump discussed trade with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a White House visit on Wednesday [5-31-17] and welcomed the signing of business deals worth billions of dollars and the jobs they would bring. General Electric Co (GE.N) said earlier it had signed deals with Vietnam worth […]

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