Let us not forget that the man who became Ho Chi Minh was a worker in the Parker House Hotel in Boston, among other jobs all over the world. He approached the US government for support for their attempts to overthrow colonial rule by the French, using the US foundational documents in his petition, and was rebuffed because of some crazy-a…
Let us not forget that the man who became Ho Chi Minh was a worker in the Parker House Hotel in Boston, among other jobs all over the world. He approached the US government for support for their attempts to overthrow colonial rule by the French, using the US foundational documents in his petition, and was rebuffed because of some crazy-ass theory of “communism” that was rampant in the 1950s US. And then ... for the want of a nail...
Let us not forget that the man who became Ho Chi Minh was a worker in the Parker House Hotel in Boston, among other jobs all over the world. He approached the US government for support for their attempts to overthrow colonial rule by the French, using the US foundational documents in his petition, and was rebuffed because of some crazy-ass theory of “communism” that was rampant in the 1950s US. And then ... for the want of a nail...
Yes, he was quite a guy. I was just reading that be used as many as 200 aliases--but, of course, that was Wikipedia....
There’s a great documentary on him on PBS. I think it might be a Frontline. Worth a look.