HOMER BIGART

(Homer William Bigart)


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Homer Bigart

Actually, the United States has been deeply involved in the fate of Vietnam since 1949 when the decision was made to subsidize the continuation of French rule against the Communist Vietminh rebellion
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The United States seems inextricably committed to a long, inconclusive war. The Communists can prolong it for years.... But it is too late to disengage; our prestige has been committed. Washington says we will stay until the finish.
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Something more than narrowly anti-Communist goals must be offered Saigon intellectuals, who are now scorned by both Diem and the Americans. This group may be permanently alienated unless there is promise of democratic reforms.
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South Vietnamese President Diem was thoroughly corrupt, and had little if any more respect for democracy and human rights than the North Vietnamese leadership did. Worse we scorned the intellectuals in his own country.

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This is not a place where the West can achieve victory.
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The military were furious with him and tried to discredit him. But he had won the Pulitzer Price for Journalism twice and his view was read and considered by many. He tuned out to have been right and an uneasy cessation of hostilities and a divided Korea with 40,000 American troops at the border existed 60 years later in the longest military stalemate of the 20th century.

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  • Born: October 25, 1907
  • Died: April 16, 1991
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Homer William Bigart was an American reporter who worked for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 to 1955 (later known as the International Herald Tribune) and for The New York Times from 1955 to his retirement in 1972. He was considered a "reporter's reporter" and an "enduring role model." He won two Pulitzer Prizes as a war correspondent, as well as most of the other major journalism awards.