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WASHINGTON — President Bush met with the prime minister of Vietnam on Tuesday to discuss closer ties on trade and greater religious freedom, signifying another step forward in the slow warming of relations between the U.S. and its communist former enemy.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung also made an unusual trek across the Potomac River to the Pentagon, where he met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates to discuss closer military cooperation.
Dung is the highest-level Vietnamese official to visit the Pentagon since the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.
