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...peace could have been achieved earlier, whether all the violence, the death, the deviousness of the last four years were ultimately worth it?he had accomplished the American exit from Viet Nam. He had not achieved the terms he had originally proclaimed, but the U.S. was out and Thieu was still in office in Saigon...
...only a few sedate waves at the clicking cameras, no speeches, no spoken exchanges of any kind between the dignitaries. None of the key figures of the settlement-neither President Nixon nor Henry Kissinger, neither Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong nor Saigon's President Nguyen Van Thieu-was even present. The three Vietnamese parties were represented by their little-known Foreign Ministers, and the U.S. by its almost forgotten Secretary of State, William Rogers, who ended up signing his name on various sheets of paper 72 times with a battery of 20 pens. As an ingenious solution...
...finally won all the terms needed to achieve what he had sought for four years: "Peace with honor." A major result: "The people of South Viet Nam have been guaranteed the right to determine their own future without outside interference." The agreement, he said, had "the full support" of Thieu, and he pledged that the U.S. still recognized Thieu's regime as "the sole legitimate government of South Viet Nam." He praised the 2,500,000 Americans who had fought in the war for taking part "in one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations...
...imperialism." He said that it recognized the reality of "two administrations, two armies, two controlled zones" in South Viet Nam and represented another step toward "the reunification of the country." "This," he added, "is the necessary advance of history. No force can prevent this advance." Saigon's President Thieu, by contrast, saw the agreement as confirming that "our people have truly destroyed the Communist troops that have come from the North," and he said that North Viet Nam now must respect "the sovereignty and independence of South Viet...
LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS. Kissinger argues that there were ambiguities in the bilingual texts of the October papers that have since been cleared up. He cited only one example: whether the National Council of Reconciliation would be an "administrative structure" without governing powers, as interpreted by the U.S. and Thieu, or whether it could be viewed by Hanoi as a coalition government. The final language makes it clear that this council will primarily organize new elections...