Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harriman's plea for secret sessions is spurned by Hanoi...
...Averell Harriman and Xuan Thuy hold first plenary session...
...July 12: Harriman says "serious matters" are being discussed during tea breaks...
...Executive did have an arm responsible for keeping track of peace probes. It operated under the direction of Averill Harriman, but as the War progressed, it gradually withered into a front toward which Johnson could gesture when his desire for peace was questioned. The story of Harriman's group as told by Kraslow and Loory illustrates one rule of executive decision-making: when an executive organization is not nourished by presidential concern it wilts. Harriman had neither the President's ear nor a security clearance which would have permitted him to do his job. Harriman did not even know...
...PARIS PEACE TALKS have been dragging on now for almost four months, and despite Harriman's hopeful "straws in the wind," we have nothing to show for it. President Johnson has refused to stop the bombing, and until it is stopped, the North Vietnamese are unwilling to discuss more fundamental issues...