Word: nixon
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...Kissinger failed to confront in his testimony was the disjuncture between his explanation that he knew of no POWs still being held and his plaint that he had no bargaining powers to force the issue. Policy involves making trade-offs, and in 1973 a difficult one was made: the Nixon Administration decided that it was best not to scuttle the peace agreement or re-engage in the war despite the fact that some missing Americans had not yet been accounted for. Winston Lord, Kissinger's onetime aide, was the only witness last week willing to discuss this uncomfortable truth, calling...
Kissinger and Nixon did not tell Congress of 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...
...President softens his tone for political gain, keep in mind the classic advice of Richard Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell: "Watch what we do, not what we say." Do that, and the two words one would never use to describe Bush's actions in the area of reproductive freedom are kind and gentle...
...number of those "discrepancies" has been reduced to 135, but that was not the issue last week. At hearings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, its chairman, Democratic Senator John Kerry, wanted to know whether the Nixon Administration had pulled out in full knowledge that U.S. servicemen were still being held prisoner. Melvin Laird and James Schlesinger, who both served as Secretary of Defense during 1973, said they thought...