Vietnam Rolls Out Red Carpet for Bush
<i> Associated Press</i>
HANOI —
George Bush, who was instrumental in ending 17 years of postwar estrangement between the United States and Vietnam, arrived Monday in Hanoi for a 4-day visit.
Bush will become the first former U.S. President to meet with Vietnam’s Communist leaders since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. No sitting U.S. President has met with Vietnam’s leaders.
U.S. officials have played down Bush’s trip, but Vietnam is welcoming him as a state guest.
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