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Article: To Hanoi, Again
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- The Washington Post
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- March 15, 1996
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President Clinton has decided to nominate outgoing Rep. Pete
Peterson (D-Fla.), a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 6 1/2 years, to
be the first U.S. ambassador to Hanoi.
Peterson, a popular moderate who was assured of reelection,
said last fall that he was retiring from Congress this year at the
end of his third term, saying he never wanted to be a "career
politician" and that he believed in term limits. He also said it was
frustratingly hard to be a "bridge-builder" in the increasingly
fractious Congress.
The likely move faces an uncertain future in the Senate. Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.), a good friend of Peterson's and himself a
former longtime resident of the Hanoi Hilton, is a ...