Word: jans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing resumed on Dec. 18 and lasted for twelve days. The moral indignation rose with each day. The proposition that the U.S. Government was deliberately slaughtering civilians in a purposeless campaign of terror went unchallenged. Yet Hanoi radio, on Jan. 4, 1973, cited a preliminary figure of about 1,300 persons killed after twelve days of bombing; many must have been military personnel, for antiaircraft batteries were a primary objective. I received incredibly bitter letters from erstwhile friends, from angry citizens. (None of them wrote me in January when the agreement was reached.) It seemed to be taken for granted...
...false as the accusation that it was a massacre of civilians," writes Kissinger. "Exactly the opposite happened." Indeed, on Dec. 18, the day the bombing resumed, the U.S. proposed to Hanoi that the talks also resume, and Hanoi agreed on Dec. 30. The date was set for Jan. 8, 1973. Says Kissinger: "I was positive we had won our gamble and that the next round of negotiations would succeed...
...Jan. 8 Le Duc Tho and I met again at Gif-sur-Yvette for what we both had promised would be our last round of negotiations. The breakthrough came on Jan. 9. It was Nixon's 60th birthday. I reported to Washington...
...returned to the U.S. on Jan. 13, stopping in Washington to pick up Haig for the trip to Key Biscayne. I reported to Nixon around midnight; we met until 2:30 a.m. Though I was unhappy with some of Nixon's actions toward me, though I objected to some of his tactics, I felt that night an odd tenderness toward him. He had seen our country through perilous tunes...
During the second Inauguration [Jan. 20, 1973], Nixon moved as if he were himself a spectator, not the principal. There was about him a quality of remoteness, as if he could never quite bring himself to leave the inhospitable and hostile world that he inhabited, that he may have hated but at least had come to terms with. Perhaps it was simple shyness or fatalism; perhaps it was consciousness of a looming catastrophe...