President-elect Richard Nixon names Henry Cabot Lodge to succeed W. Averell Harriman as chief U.S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks. Lawrence Edward Walsh, a New York lawyer and former deputy attorney general, was named deputy chief negotiator to replace Cyrus R. Vance. Marshall Green, an Asian affairs expert and ambassador to Indonesia, was assigned to assist the negotiating team. The peace talks started on May 10, 1968, but had been plagued from the beginning by procedural questions that inhibited any meaningful negotiations or progress. Unfortunately, the change in personnel had no effect in fostering more meaningful negotiations.
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Lodge succeeds Harriman as chief negotiator
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This Week in History, Jan 5 - Jan 11
- Jan 05, 1967
- Amphibious operations conducted in the Mekong Delta
- Jan 05, 1969
- Lodge succeeds Harriman as chief negotiator
- Jan 06, 1971
- Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up
- Jan 06, 1975
- Phuoc Binh falls to the North Vietnamese
- Jan 07, 1965
- Civilian government is restored in Saigon
- Jan 07, 1971
- Laird visits Saigon
- Jan 08, 1967
- Operation Cedar Falls is launched
- Jan 08, 1973
- Peace talks resume in Paris
- Jan 09, 1965
- Support is pledged to civilian government
- Jan 09, 1967
- U.S. officials try to counter claims of Saigon corruption
- Jan 10, 1967
- Johnson asks for surcharge to pay for the war
- Jan 10, 1972
- Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Nixon
- Jan 11, 1956
- Diem issues Ordinance No. 6
- Jan 11, 1965
- Demonstrations erupt in Saigon and Hue
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