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Roundup

1-15-07

A Lesson in History: Resettling Refugees of Vietnam [audio 6min]

In 1975, President Gerald Ford set up an interagency task force that resettled 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Julia Taft was the head of President Ford's Inter-Agency Task Force on Indochinese Refugee resettlement. Report by Debbie Elliott.

Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"