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Võ Nguyên Giáp: 100 years old today.
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It's newsworthy. Not many other veterans from the Việt Nam conflict got to score a century. So what would I like to say about him? I'd like to avoid the twin perils of hagiography and defamation. Let's go with a small bullet point history.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930-2011)
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And so departs a Prime Minister and Vice President of South Việt Nam...
It's ironic that someone so flamboyant and historic in real life got overshadowed by their daughter before death. You've never heard of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, daughter of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ? Then you've probably never heard of Paris by Night, the Vietnamese language variety show she's been hosting since god knows when. It's very, very big in the "overseas" Vietnamese community. But unless you're a speaker or married to one, it's probably passed your notice. Never mind that - let's talk about the big man himself.