Word: ellsworth
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Saigon's announcement that it would send a delegation to Paris came nearly four weeks after Lyndon Johnson announced that he was extending his limited bombing halt to cover all of North Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker waited a week for South Viet namese tempers to cool-and for the American elections to end. Then he went to work to persuade President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris. So strained were the sessions that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks...
Looking back, it now appears that although Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker may have thought that President Nguyen Van Thieu was firmly pinned down, the Vietnamese leadership had never been completely committed. Thieu may have told Bunker that he favored a bombing-halt communiqué-indeed, the U.S. Embassy sent such verbatim quotes on to Washington-but the deal was never really confirmed. This, in turn, suggests that the Americans may have missed subtle South Vietnamese hints prior to the halt; after all, Saigon never liked to give the American ambassador a flat no on anything. When Thieu finally...
Johnson has not demanded public acceptance by Hanoi to his conditions. But Thieu feels that he needs some sort of open acknowledgment to protect his own political flanks. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker put in seven strenuous sessions, some lasting more than two hours, with Thieu in the course of ten days. At first, Thieu was amenable to the U.S. terms. After meeting with his National Security Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen...
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...under pressure from some military associates, had long held out against a Minh comeback. Now, after months of political maneuvering during which he has managed to shoulder aside ambitious Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and his supporters, Thieu has consolidated his position to the point where U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker recently described his government as "more stable than at any time since the early days of Diem." Thieu described Minh's return as part of a national reconciliation plan, said he would soon send emissaries to Bangkok to bring him home by Nov. 1, South Viet...