A hero of wartime resistance, Ho Chi men.

At 55, Ho has become a legend.

He grants an exclusive interview to CBS News correspondent David Schoombr.

Ho came into the room that night, wearing the uniform that had been made popular by Stalin, by Chunkai Shack.

Just a simple, khaki, high-collar uniform,

no decorations, no insignia of any kind.

I looked at him and said,

President Ho, how can you possibly fight war

against the modern French army?

You have nothing.

You've just told me what a poor country you are.

You don't even have a bank,

let alone an army and guns and modern weapons. The French have planes, tanks,

Napalm. How can you fight the French? And he said, oh, we have a lot of things that can match

the French weapons. Tanks are no good in swamps. And we have swamps in which the French tanks

will sink. And we have another secret weapon, it's nationalism. And don't think that a small ragged band cannot fight against the modern army.

It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger.

If the tiger ever stands still, the elephant will crush him and pierce him with his mighty tusks.

But the tiger of Indochina is not going to stand still.

We're going to hide in our jungles by day and steal out by night.

And the tiger will jump on the back of the elephant

and tear huge chunks out of his flesh and then jump back into the jungle.

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