Word: mias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Supplementing Bush's statement, retired General John Vessey, the President's personal MIA/POW representative, just back from Hanoi, produced new photos and a Memorandum of Understanding in which Vietnamese officials agreed to "make available all museums that may contain U.S. MIA archival data" and promised access to display cases, microfiche files and other materials. "The important thing is not the material we brought back," Vessey emphasized. "The important thing is the material we expect...
...full-time assistants (and this is when he is on sabbatical) is not leaping out of his leather-bound chair to lunch with me at Bartley's Burgers. The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati pays the man $15,000 to speak. He's consulting with Mia Farrow, and mike Tyson is on hold from inside his cell...
What comes into play in the Mia Farrow case...
...these letters. Instead, in between the signing of the treaty and the sending of the letters, they misleadingly informed Congress that there were "no secret deals" involving economic aid. Congress balked at the aid package and thus removed one of Kissinger's bargaining chips for dealing with the MIA issue...
...same was true on the issue of whether the U.S. would be willing to enforce the Paris agreement by retaliating militarily against violations on the MIA issue and others. Kissinger drafted letters, which Nixon signed, making such pledges to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress...