President Thieu is the president of South Vietnam. Mother dislikes him and seems to distrust him; she doesn’t think any of his displays of emotion are genuine, and when he steps down in the weeks before the Fall of Saigon, she also doesn’t believe his promise to stay in the country and serve his people. Mother only tolerates him because in years past, he’s held an event for “war wives” where, at the end, attendees received food to thank them for their husbands’ service.