"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Brett wrote:

The Opinion Journals comments a short time after Thieu death of natural
causes:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/column...y/?id=95001257


Good article and when you read it, you're left with the impression that
NVN and
the U.S. were alone in Paris. Thieu has to get the details of the U.S.-NVN
agreement from captured VC documents? If the SVN were in Paris, they
obviously
weren't doing much. Sightseeing?

A better description I believe is that they were dragged kicking and
screaming to the table. From the same article: __In "The White House Years,"
Mr. Kissinger quotes a crucial passage of a letter to Thieu from Nixon: "I
have therefore irrevocably decided to proceed to initial the Agreement on
January 23, 1973 and to sign it on January 27, 1973 in Paris. I will do so,
if necessary, alone. In that case I shall have to explain publicly that your
Government obstructs peace. The result will be an inevitable and immediate
termination of U.S. economic and military assistance which cannot be
forestalled by a change of personnel in your government. I hope, however,
that after all our two countries have shared and suffered together in
conflict, we will stay together to preserve peace and reap its benefits."__