Stopover Point 05: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHAMBER

This room was used for meetings between the President, his generals, and US military advisers.

The walls were hung with maps, especially those depicting the war in South Vietnam.

At 9:30 am on 25 March 1975, faced with the advance of the liberation forces, President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered Lieutenant General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of I Corps, to withdraw from Hue and make a final stand at Da Nang.

In response to that situation, US President Gerald Ford dispatched a delegation led by General Frederick C. Weyand, Chief of Staff of the US Army, to assess the situation. On 3 April 1975, the delegation met here with President Thieu and his generals in a last attempt to salvage the military position in South Vietnam.