10-13-2020, 06:58 AM
Quote:Earlier
this week, I finished reading Donald Rumsfeld’s wonderful biography of
Gerald Ford, titled ”When the Center Held.” It was written in 2018. The
book clearly articulates that President Ford was a thoroughly good man,
a special American, and a greatly underrated President. HOWEVER, there
was a story in the book that was startling.
In
1975, President Ford was left to manage the difficult ending of the
Vietnam War. As North Vietnam seized on the opportunity to test American
resolve following President Nixon’s resignation, President Ford went to
Congress to ask for a relief package to push back on the North
Vietnamese to allow American personnel and our allies to evacuate.
However, there was one US Senator who opposed any such support.
The result was the embarrassing and hurried evacuation from the roof of
the American embassy in Saigon. This senator reviled in the
embarrassment and did everything he could to leverage it politically
against Ford.
Despite
the efforts of this U.S .Senator--President Ford managed to rescue 1,500
South Vietnamese allies prior to the country’s fall. Had President Ford
not acted quickly, these people would have been targeted and slaughtered
for their support for America. Saving them was a moral
obligation.
When
they arrived in America, President Ford asked Congress for a package to
assist these refugees integrate into American society. But that
troublesome US Senator showed up again and torpedoed any support for
these shell shocked refugees. Instead, President Ford had to recruit
Christian organizations to offer assistance on a voluntary basis. As he
did so, the aforementioned Senator belittled those
efforts.
What
kind of person would oppose President Ford’s tireless work to do the
right and humanitarian thing? Who would want to play politics with the
well-being of innocent people who stood by America in the tragic Vietnam
War?
That
US Senator? Joe Biden.
The
gushing and revisionist history over Joe Biden and his record is
nauseating.