Ross Perot speaks at the Texas Tech University Vietnam Center and Archive's 20th Anniversary Ball

H. Ross Perot Sr. delivered the keynote address for the Vietnam Center and Archive's 20th Anniversary Ball.

Jim Reckner, founder and recently retired director of the center, began the archive with a single bundle of letters written from a GI to his mother. Today, the center has more than 20 million documents chronicling the exploits of soldiers and generals, Vietcong and war protestors second only to the holdings of the National Archive.

Along the way, the center positioned itself as a diplomatic emissary, advancing reconciliations between the former enemy nations through academic and even political agreements that have led to student exchanges and even sharing of information with Vietnams national archivist.

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