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Sept. 14: Thieu announces that Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), leader of anti-Diem coup in 1963, will return from exile to become a presidential adviser. Minh is one of few South Vietnamese deemed acceptable to Hanoi and N.L.F...
Johnson has not demanded public acceptance by Hanoi to his conditions. But Thieu feels that he needs some sort of open acknowledgment to protect his own political flanks. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker put in seven strenuous sessions, some lasting more than two hours, with Thieu in the course of ten days. At first, Thieu was amenable to the U.S. terms. After meeting with his National Security Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen...
Flurry of Meetings. Apart from Thieu, Johnson has yet another problem: if he does not get public concessions from Hanoi in response to a bombing halt, he risks the accusation that he is endangering the lives of U.S. servicemen solely to give Hubert Humphrey a political advantage...
July 20: Johnson and Thieu in Hawaii issue joint communique reiterating strong stand...
Other clues pointed to the possibility that the impasse might at last be breaking up. One was the return to South Viet Nam, at the invitation of President Nguyen Van Thieu, of Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths...