Le Duc Tho, a member of the North Vietnam Communist Party's Politburo, joins the North Vietnamese negotiating team as a special counselor. The Paris peace talks had begun in March 1968, but had made little headway in ending the war. In August 1969, Tho and Henry Kissinger would begin meeting secretly in a villa outside Paris in an attempt to reach a peace settlement. It was these private talks that would ultimately result in the January 1973 Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring the Peace in Vietnam. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Kissinger in 1973, Tho, aware that the North Vietnamese were still planning to conquer South Vietnam, declined the honor.
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Jun 3, 1968:
Le Duc Tho joins negotiations in Paris
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This Week in History, Jun 3 - Jun 9
- Jun 03, 1968
- Le Duc Tho joins negotiations in Paris
- Jun 03, 1970
- Nixon calls Cambodian operation a success
- Jun 04, 1961
- Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on neutrality for Laos
- Jun 04, 1965
- Walt takes command of 3rd Marine Division
- Jun 05, 1968
- Robert Kennedy shot after California primary
- Jun 05, 1972
- Laird testifies before Congress
- Jun 06, 1964
- U.S. reconnaissance jets shot down over Laos
- Jun 06, 1972
- South Vietnamese forces clear Kontum of communist troops
- Jun 07, 1965
- Westmoreland requests 44 battalions
- Jun 07, 1972
- McGovern continues to campaign against the war
- Jun 08, 1965
- U.S. forces are available for ground support
- Jun 08, 1969
- Nixon and Thieu meet at Midway
- Jun 09, 1964
- CIA report challenges "domino theory"
- Jun 09, 1972
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