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...Pham Van Dong, the prime minister of North Vietnam, has been a revolutionary for half a century. He helped Ho Chi Minh organize revolutionary groups in the 1930s. These small organizations later blossomed into the Viet Minh, which liberated half of Vietnam from French control...
When I arrived in Hanoi one night in 1961 aboard a Russian military plane, the entire North Vietnamese Politburo was there to meet Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma. I got to shake the hands of Premier Pham Van Dong, General Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who told me in near-perfect French: "Please tell the truth." The second time was totally different. There were no honor guards and no flowers at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport-only a flock of black-suited men with black shoes, black socks and conservative ties...
Sipping tea at the Presidential Palace, Premier Pham Van Dong and Kissinger's familiar Paris adversary Le Duc Tho spent some of their time with the American in replaying the Paris talks, trying to assess each other's motives and tactics. They smiled often, obviously respecting each other's professional skills. There were few recriminations about the war. Instead there were realistic analyses of the problems that lie ahead...
...capital of what had so recently been a bitter enemy. Kissinger was making his first visit to Hanoi at the invitation of his Paris antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly as a means of worrying South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi can also use any rapprochement with Washington to give it more flexibility in dealing with both Moscow and Peking...
...Dong Dang that the Japanese had begun their invasion of Indochina in 1940. At that time the French government fired off an urgent plea to Washington for help. But President Franklin Roosevelt fired back: "The United States will not go to war for any Ding Dong." An apocryphal story, surely, but one that summed up America's hands-off policy in Indochina for a few more years at least...