The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide oral history resources for students, researchers, the general public about the Vietnamese community living abroad. These interviews were conducted and filmed entirely by volunteers as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.]]> He was elected as a U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in 2008, becoming the first Vietnamese-American ever elected to Congress and the first Republican to represent his district since 1891. He served one term.]]>