re: #205 Big Beautiful Door
According to the Documentary, a point came where President ordered that no more Vietnamese would be evacuated, and the remaining Marines had to keep them in the dark for hours while waiting for their turn. And before that, the delusional US Ambassador blocked evacuation plans to avoid looking defeatist until plans to evacuate by boat and plane had to be abandoned and helicopter lift was the only option left.
Didn’t President Ford play a bigger role in later getting them refugee status? I recall that being a point of discussion when praising past Republican office holder behavior regarding refugees to current ones.