US Governors Visit People of Binh-Thuan Province
A blue-and-white photo sheet headed 'Governors of the American states visit the people of Binh Thuan province' shows four scenes: Michigan's governor shaking hands with South Vietnamese soldiers, the province chief and delegation at a repaired bridge, Wyoming's governor with ralliers, and officials among sacks of American-marked food aid. The closing line says the two nations' 'sympathy' in the face of the Communist threat brings great hope. The tell is borrowed standing: visiting American officials appear beside local troops and aid, so their presence endorses the Saigon side.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-980.
Text on the object
Thống-Đốc các tiểu-bang Mỹ-quốc viếng thăm dân chúng tỉnh BÌNH-THUẬN Ông Tỉnh Trưởng cùng Phái Đoàn đã đến xem chiếc cầu bị V.C. phá đã được sửa chữa tại Phú-Long. Thống Đốc Romney tiểu bang Michigan đã viếng thăm các anh em binh sĩ Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà. Ty Xã-Hội đang chất đầy thực phẩm để đem phát cho đồng-bào ty nạn cộng-sản tại các làng định cư trước sự hiện diện của phái đoàn. Ông Hansen, Thống Đốc tiểu bang Wyoming đã đến thăm anh em quy-chánh viên trong tỉnh. SỰ THÔNG CẢM CỦA HAI QUỐC-GIA TRƯỚC HIỂM-HOẠ CỘNG-SẢN ĐÃ MANG LẠI HY VỌNG LỚN LAO TRONG LÒNG MỌI NGƯỜI. [Partly legible on bridge:] ...QUỐC GIA SỬA CHỮA NGÀY 18-5-6[illegible] [On sacks:] ...PEOPLE OF AMERICA... SP-980
GOVERNORS OF THE AMERICAN STATES VISIT THE PEOPLE OF BINH-THUAN PROVINCE The Province Chief and the delegation came to see the bridge, wrecked by the V.C., that has been repaired at Phu-Long. Governor Romney of the state of Michigan visited the brother soldiers of the Republic of Vietnam. The Social Welfare Service is loading up food to distribute to Communist-refugee compatriots in the resettlement villages in the presence of the delegation. Mr. Hansen, Governor of the state of Wyoming, came to visit the brother ralliers in the province. THE SYMPATHY OF THE TWO NATIONS IN THE FACE OF THE COMMUNIST DANGER HAS BROUGHT GREAT HOPE TO EVERYONE'S HEART. [Partly legible on bridge:] ...NATIONAL ... REPAIRED ON 18-5-6[illegible] [On sacks:] ...PEOPLE OF AMERICA... SP-980
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution.
