Pete Peterson
Pete Peterson
Douglas Brian "Pete" Petersonis an American politician and diplomat. He served as a United States Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War and spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese army after his plane was shot down. He returned to Hanoi when he became the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam in 1997. He was an ambassador until July 2001, after which he devoted himself to philanthropic work...
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We're just trying to keep our base invigorated and charging and continuing to move forward to fight annexation and this is the best way we know how to do it.
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I don't necessarily think anyone is looking for an apology.
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I'd seriously consider asking Bob Dole, if President Clinton wins, to be a cochairman, ... but that might be a fantasy.
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The interesting thing there, though, is that they did cut back on sales of lower margin phones. That helped them get the higher operating margin, but it did cost them some revenue.
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You couldn't have imagined this occurring four or five years ago, certainly, maybe not even two or three years ago. And here we are now, two nations standing side by side with essentially the same purposes, the same goals,
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The flow of traffic is easier. It shows well.
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The cooperation in the fullest possible accounting is excellent and we need to give the Vietnamese credit for having stayed the course on that,
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(That relationship would) bring stability to a region and to a country that has been obviously destabilized for decades and decades.
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No one blow is going to be terminal, ... But this is another very serious one. All this does is add to the increasing loss of confidence in our systems.
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No one came to us and gave us a choice they just came to us and said here it is. You have to take it you can't do anything about it. And you're going to have to pay lots more money for it. And we don't think that's fair.