In fact, there seems to have been only one recorded comment about it, and that was negative. As the 65,000-square-foot building neared completion in 1966, Senator Stephen M. Young, an Ohio Democrat, sparked an uproar by proclaiming that the South Vietnamese government siphoned off $2 million in U.S. aid to pay for teak floors and 100 fountains. The South Vietnamese were predictably offended -- there is only one modest fountain -- and the survivors of the Diem regime still bristle over it.
In fact, there seems to have been only one recorded comment about it, and that was negative. As the 65,000-square-foot building neared completion in 1966, Senator Stephen M. Young, an Ohio Democrat, sparked an uproar by proclaiming that the South Vietnamese government siphoned off $2 million in U.S. aid to pay for teak floors and 100 fountains. The South Vietnamese were predictably offended -- there is only one modest fountain -- and the survivors of the Diem regime still bristle over it.
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