Good morning Vietnam

President Bill Clinton is going to Vietnam this month shortly after his suc cessor is elected, The visit, just a few months after the twenty-fifth anni versary of the end of the Vietnam War, will be the first by a serving US pr esident since Richard Nixon went to Saigon - now Ho Chi Minh City - in 1969 . it will also be the first visit to the capital, Hanoi, by a serving US pr esident. Clinton's journey is thus rich in symbolism, marking yet another i mportant step towards healing between Hanoi and Washington.