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TIL Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist party in Vietnam, was witnessed by American advisors on September 2, 1945, giving a speech repeating the 2nd paragraph of Jefferson's 1776 Declaration of Independence. That's why the current official motto of Vietnam is "Independence, Freedom, and Happiness."

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