Vietnam's Complicated Relationship with the US
Cheap facsimiles of $100 bills waft in the tropical breeze, littering Ho Chi Minh City's sidewalks with Benjamin Franklin's face. Elsewhere in Vietnam, US President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving politicized street cred to "urban wear" clothes.
Thirty-five years ago, victorious Communist North Vietnam's troops fought their way …
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