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...Tho argued that Hanoi's offensive was not in fact an offensive, since it had been provoked by the U.S., which was the real aggressor. He proceeded to quote statements from our American critics to support his position, which led to a testy exchange...
...Tho: I would like to give you the evidence. It is an American source, not our source. [Senator J. William] Fulbright said that the acts of the liberation forces in South Viet Nam are in direct response to your sabotage of the Paris conference...
...Tho: I would like to quote...
...Tho refused to go ahead. He did not negotiate; he simply read me the formal North Vietnamese position, publicly available for months. There was no point in continuing the meeting. Le Duc Tho was not even stalling; he was laying down terms. As I got up to leave, Le Duc Tho took me aside and said in the tone of a fellow conspirator that his side's prospects were "good...
Throughout the summer, private sessions with Le Duc Tho-"Ducky" to the American negotiators-brought what Kissinger describes as "significant movement, entirely by Hanoi." Probably convinced that Nixon would be much stronger after the November elections, Hanoi began to press for a quick settlement...