Pham Van Dong
Phạm Văn Đồng ( listen; March 1, 1906 – April 29, 2000) was an associate of Hồ Chí Minh. He served as prime minister of North Vietnam from 1955 through 1976, and was prime minister of a unified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the rule of Lê Duẩn and Nguyễn Văn Linh.
Read more about Pham Van Dong: Early Life, The First Indochina War, 1954 To 1987, Retirement
Famous quotes containing the words van and/or dong:
“Don’t you hear his cannons roar?
We’ll be Orangemen no more
Says the Shan Van Vocht.”
—Unknown. The Shan Van Vocht (l. 10–12)
“With hym ther was a plowman, was his brother,
That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)