Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu remained a prickly obstacle, as he feared, perhaps with some justification, that the nine-point plan worked out by White House Adviser Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due Tho might seriously undermine his chance to survive. Thieu's personal envoy, Nguyen Phu Due, was received twice by President Nixon in the White House in exchanges described as "very detailed and very frank"-meaning there was sharp disagreement. While Nixon conceded that the proposed agreement was a compromise that could not fully satisfy Saigon, he also emphasized that it gave the Thieu government a fair chance...
Professor Kissinger's opinions are well known, Le Duc Tho's are not. As Olivier Todd notes (Le Nouvel Observateur, Nov. 27), the North Vietnamese are now struggling with a hard choice between "socialism open to the whole world (and) Marxism-Leninism shut in upon itself... It will soon be known whether thirty years of war will produce an authoritarian state, stiffened into its war communism, or--at last--a state combining socialism and democracy." In that choice America, and in particular Harvard, cannot avoid being implicated...
Time reports (Dec. 4) a "jocular exchange" between Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger...
Periodically, Kissinger and Tho would play to the gallery, strolling through the rose garden to chat with what seemed like rather studied conviviality-as if trying to counter stories of deepening difficulties. Kissinger, assuming his secret-swinger posture, emerged from a Paris restaurant with good-looking Jan Gushing, 26, the Briarcliff-grad blonde wife of an American working in a Paris investment firm, whom Kissinger has known for a couple of years...
...Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger or Le Duc Tho could look ahead to those professorships at Harvard and Hanoi...