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...that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly advocated military pressure to force the communists to comply with the bargain...
...Kissinger was callous toward their fate. His critics may be justified in attacking his bureaucratic methods, but they have no reason to impugn his motives. As he pointed out in his Senate testimony last week, there were no reliable reports of live Americans being held in violation of the accord. And he was also persuasive in charging that neither the public nor the Congress was willing any longer to support the bargaining levers -- economic aid, renewed military involvement -- that he considered necessary to force the communists to account for the American servicemen who were still missing...
...partly Kissinger's backchannel methods that made it more difficult to enforce the 1973 treaty and that created the distrust that has surrounded the MIA issue ever since. Kissinger negotiated the Vietnam Peace Accord secretly, cutting Congress and even the State Department out of the process. And on two crucial issues in the final agreement, this furtiveness bordered on deceit...
...first involved the "war reparations" that Hanoi demanded from the U.S. Kissinger offered instead a package of "reconstruction" aid. This was duly noted in the Paris agreement. But Kissinger kept secret a deal he made with the North Vietnamese to send them a presidential letter -- three days after the accord was signed -- spelling out the details of this aid. Even trickier was the deal he cooked up to get around Hanoi's insistence that the letter not say this aid was contingent on congressional approval. To solve that, Kissinger drafted a separate presidential letter saying the aid package would...
...issue and others. Kissinger drafted letters, which Nixon signed, making such pledges to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress was unwilling to authorize force either to press the MIA issue or to save the Thieu government. When the secret letters became public two years later...