Word: politbureau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although late in October last year Hanoi had agreed to send Politbureau member Le Duc Tho to Paris for talks on November 20, three days before that date, the North Vietnamese informed Washington that Tho was too ill to come. However, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris Talks, Xuan Thuy, was ready for secret talks. Nixon refused to send Kissinger to talk to Thuy who, according to Kissinger, lacks the authority to negotiate on important matters...
Between June and September 1971, the Hanoi delegation at Paris frequently brought the possibility of such an exchange to the attention of U.S. citizens. On July 6, a high-ranking member of the North Vietnamese Politbureau, Le Duc Tho, spoke of the above exchange in an interview with the New York Times. Although he questioned whether Nixon would agree to the proposal, Tho specified that his government was prepared to promptly reach a negotiated solution. The Nixon administration did not respond...