Editing Dương Văn Minh (section)

==Life in exile==
Minh was allowed to emigrate to France in 1983 and settled near Paris, and it was again assumed that the communists had permitted him to leave on the basis that he remain aloof from politics and history. In the late 1980s, there was speculation he would be allowed to return to Vietnam to live out his last years, but this did not happen.<ref name=indep/> In 1988, he emigrated to the United States, and he lived in [[Pasadena, California]], with his daughter, Mai Duong. He later needed a [[wheelchair]] for mobility.<ref name=nyt/> In exile, Minh kept his silence, did not talk about the events in Vietnam, and did not produce a memoir.<ref name=lat/>