Vietnam Visit

President George W. Bush, left, toasts with Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet at the International Convention Center in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush, who is in Hanoi for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, is also making a state visit to Vietnam.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Tran Thi Kim Chi, the wife of Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet, attend a dinner hosted by Triet at the International Convention Center in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Rice and President George W. Bush are attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam.

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush greet Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and his wife as they arrive at the International Convention Center to attend a state banquet in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush, who is in Vietnam to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, is also making a state visit to Vietnam.

Vietnamese motorcyclists ride past Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in downtown Hanoi, decorated with U.S. flags in honor of President George W. Bush's visit to Vietnam, on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush's visit has been greeted with a certain ambivalence, a sharp contrast to the reception that Bill Clinton received in 2000, when he became the first U.S. president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

President George W. Bush, left, meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush, on his first visit to a country where America fought a two-decade-long fight against communism, said the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

President George W. Bush laughs while meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush is in the Vietnamese capital to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

President George W. Bush, left, meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Bush, who on Friday became only the second U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War, and other leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum embarked on a campaign to forge a united front in disarmament talks with North Korea.

A bust of Ho Chi Minh is seen at the rear as President George W. Bush smiles before the start of his meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet, not pictured, at the presidential palace in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006.

President George W. Bush, center, who is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, meets Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet at the presidential palace in Hanoi on Nov. 17, 2006. Also in the picture are first lady Laura Bush, right, and Triet's wife, Tran Thi Kim Chi.

President George W. Bush reviews a Vietnamese military honor guard during official ceremonies on Nov. 17, 2006, at the presidential palace in Hanoi. Mr. Bush is in the Vietnamese capital to attend the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit through Sunday.