"Vindicated in the Long Run"

"Salisbury told a congressional committee after his trip. 'The people have a feeling of the mass participation in this war.' In short, although the bombing was aimed, in part, at strengthening the morale of America’s ally in Sài Gòn, it was having an unintended parallel effect in the North.
"Salisbury's image of the undaunted North Vietnamese was ahead of its time, and would become deeply embedded in the popular memory of the war. He found an overwhelming sense of confidence at all levels of North Vietnamese society. 'From our point of view,' Premier Phạm Văn Đồng told him, 'it is a sacred war for independence, freedom, life. It stands for everything, this war, for this generation and for future generations. That's why we are determined to fight this war and win this war. Our victory stems from this very resoluteness.'"

Joe Renouard at History News Network revisits Harrison E. Salisbury's Behind the Lines--Hanoi from 1967.