Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundy had already claimed that negotiations over Vietnam could not take place because Hanoi refused to negotiate. Cohen, who had spent much of the previous two months studying the subject, said that for the purposes of argument he would concede that the North Vietnamese were not willing to come to the conference table. The Amherst senior suggested, instead, that the U.S., despite the President's periodic polemics of peace, wasn't willing to negotiate...
Bundy looked up rarely during the exchange. He sat a few feet across the "U" from Cohen, drawing, according to Miss Erdmann, impossibly straight lines across a paper, then turning the paper and crosshatching the first set of lines with another set of impossibly straight lines...
...Cohen asked the former Presidential advisor if one side could negotiate the surrender of the other side. Bundy, recalled Miss Erdmann, answered that both sides must make concessions...
...Cohen's Case...
...Cohen reminded Bundy of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's request to the Viet Cong to lay down their arms and join the free elections...