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After Ho, what? Lacouture is not encouraging to those who think that Ho's lifelong dream of a united, independent Viet Nam will die with him. Once, when temporarily out of the country, Ho was asked if he worried about what his subordinates might be up to. "What could they possibly do without me?" he answered serenely. "It was I who made them." Being so fashioned in his image, Lacouture thinks, Ho's heirs can dream no other dream.