South Vietnamese

adjective

1. of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of South Vietnam

Example Sentences

Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate, found out about the impending peace talks and, through an intermediary, got word to South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to cancel the first session; if Nixon won, he would get a better deal.

From Slate

In 1968, Richard Nixon enlisted Anna Chenault to help gum up the Paris Peace talks among the United States, Ho Chi Minh’s North Vietnamese government, and the South Vietnamese government, which was utterly dependent on U.S. arms and aid.

From Salon

According to Politico, Nixon’s promises of unconditional support, conveyed by Chennault and others, “no doubt helped to persuade the South Vietnamese government to boycott proposed peace talks, shutting a door that Johnson had opened and clinching Nixon’s victory.”

From Salon

Their cries were heard by President Gerald Ford, who ordered Operation Babylift, taking 2,000 South Vietnamese children from orphanages to the United States.

From BBC

“She may be a very strong activist for climate change, but besides that, we also view her as being a person who was very cruel to the rights of the South Vietnamese people during the antiwar protests,” said Phat Bui, a Garden Grove resident and chairman of the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times