In 1969, while studying a Party resolution, participants received the sorrowful news that President Ho Chi Minh had passed away. Deeply moved, artist Vo Dong Minh made a solemn vow before the late President’s spirit: if he survived the war, he would paint 79 portraits of Uncle Ho, representing the President’s age, because the people of southern Viet Nam had never seen him and always longed to meet him.