Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"We celebrated the President's birthday today by making a major breakthrough in the negotiations. The Vietnamese have broken our hearts several times before, and we just cannot assume success until everything is pinned down, but the mood and the businesslike approach was as close to October as we...
But we still did not have the agreement of that doughty little man in Saigon, President Thieu. Nixon was determined to prevail. "Brutality is nothing," he said to me. "You have never seen it if this son-of-a-bitch doesn't go along, believe me." Haig delivered a...
When I arrived in Paris, I learned that Lyndon Johnson had died that day. He was himself a casualty of the Viet Nam War, which he had inherited and then expanded in striving to fulfill his conception of our nation's duty and of his obligation to his fallen...
Le Duc Tho and I held three secret meetings between Feb. 21 and April 4, 1970. On a weekend or holiday, to provide better cover, I would leave Washington on one of the presidential fleet of Boeing 707s. It would land at Avord, a French air force base in central...
One meeting was nearly aborted by a technical malfunction. Because the pilots did not know whether Avord had the equipment for repairs, the plane had to go to Germany, but no one there knew of our impending arrival, much less of our mission or predicament. Fortunately, we established contact from...