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...keep it that way, Nixon also had an ultimatum of sorts last week for South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Nixon sent Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, to Saigon with a letter for Thieu. It warned Thieu against making any diversionary peace demands of his own and told him to be prepared to sign any agreement reached between Washington and Hanoi. If he demurs, Nixon said, Congress will be inclined to end all assistance to South Viet Nam and, he implied, the White House would not press Capitol Hill to do otherwise. Apparently Washington wanted Hanoi...
...national interest and Realpolltik naturally dictated disengagement from Viet Nam. Yet Saigon's hold on the U.S. was once again disastrously tenacious. Elected in 1968 on a pledge to end the war, Nixon chose an excruciatingly slow four-year policy of Vietnamization ? turning the war over to Thieu's forces ? as a means, so he thought, to salvage some "honor" from the commitment. His forays to Moscow and Peking this year were decisive in turning Hanoi toward
...assigning blame, others looked to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who certainly was doing everything within his power to torpedo the proposed agreement. Inevitably, too, the Nixon-Kissinger relationship was scrutinized more earnestly than ever for frictions. It became a journalistic fashion to look for "light between" the President and his adviser. There was some encouragement for this activity from within the White House, notably from Haldeman, who considers himself an extension of Nixon and deeply resents Kissinger's high profile and the fact that Kissinger is not subordinate to him as is everyone else on the President...
...caution to have been so euphoric and expansive as he was on Oct. 26. His anticipation was too great, relying too much on what he called the continued "good will" of Hanoi and Le Due Tho, with whom he evidently got on well. He also underestimated the opposition of Thieu...
...part, Nixon, who fully understood what Kissinger had brought back from Paris, backed off when Thieu balked. In sending Kissinger back to the North Vietnamese to extract more specific language in the draft on the sovereignty of South Viet Nam, so as to meet some of Thieu's objections, Nixon alarmed Hanoi, which had believed it had a deal. In predictable riposte, Hanoi then began asking for revisions of its own. As Kissinger explained in his Oct. 26 briefing...