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It's pretty well known that Ho Chi Minh was eager to cooperate with the United States after WWII, even naming his army the "Viet-American Army" as they marched on Hanoi. He at one point asked Truman for an audience and urged American investment into Vietnam.

So would would happen if Truman decided to meet with him, and work on an at least nominally independent Vietnam? How much will he have to twist the French's arm to do so, and what would happen to Vietnam?
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