Nixon & Haig on Vietnam War and Paris Peace Accords

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And in that message they said that they had to have confirmation of the acceptance agreement to that point.

And without that, they could break off negotiations and be condemned by the people of the world, you know, in the public.

Harry went back.

But he didn't answer the unilateral statements that were so important to him for your allows.

And, uh, essentially, that had Arden with the POWs in the house.

Not very well-deposed in Paris.

So he looked back and said, yes, uh, except this.

It's all set.

Provided he could do the unilateral statement.

The insurance is only a little more allowed than we can code it, and the use of our business is allowed, but we can't code the final case, and that's really just what it tells us, and that's what we're going to be doing.

So, I've got this letter to you today.

It's an absolutely solid, iron-pad document, which takes off every show, and it's written by a lady I've told about some of the issues.

And, you know, I don't think this is the same as you've done it.

The attack itself now is very good.

It's just a solid delivery.

Delivered in Paris, huh?

It was delivered in Paris?

Yes, it was delivered in Paris, here in the north of Italy, at noon in Paris.

So it's delivered in the south of Paris, huh?

So they have it.

Now, in case of two, we've got very much an add on the substantial amount of C-130 aircraft.

and 834 is the sweet and heady delivery and it hadn't been ported yet and the discussions with Q slipped from that was the other thing they had known and it was a great thought to spend time with them and get ready now if that discussion went out it would be stressful in any way we've done it

because they had given up, given in on the plan to leave.

That's it.

They gave up.

Yeah.

Henry, I think he saw that this was the way.

Yeah.

And if you get too on board, that's what they scheduled.

48 hours of the advice.

You know, it's a blast.

You know, they're very busy, but they're pushing things out.

They're geared to it.

That's the spiral of it.

That's what it takes.

And here's what we would have.

uh he was better than the order on the 24th he was better than the order on the 24th he was better than the order on the 26th yeah the adjourned announcement

In Washington, I called by on that night about 2 or 3.

I said, be sure your challenges are alright.

But I didn't think.

Don't you worry about my company.

I can't let anything come to me wrong.

October 27th, 2019, in Washington.

I submitted the paper.

So I am able to take place on October 31st in Paris.

And we agreed that we would go with the second to the 31st, and we would have to cease fire by June of the 28th.

And we have three and a half, four days of no cease fire.

Money stopped going off.

And I'll say to you right now, if you don't shut up and do the thing about it, it has to be the next day.

Just the way we say, see folks, it's about 48 hours later.

They said it's a spry scene at 20, so the 27th is spry.

Well, it's better.

It's always better to split them in.

They had two days to split them in series.

Now, what is the situation?

We don't know what the hell he's got done with two of them.

They continually got a site on them.

He's got to explain stories to the defectors.

Our offer is one is to put a coalition in.

You know, there isn't any question about that.

The point that I was going to make is this.

I wonder if what I play at hand is that all the breathing in the world will not be enough to get away with at least one.

Some Henry would never understand.

You get this.

The nationwide attack of the enemy on government at all, and of course on all of its leaders,

This is a coalition deficit, and we could have had it all the time.

That's fine.

And we just really had to breathe in and deny it.

All the people will see that, too.

They will be terrified if they hear it.

I think we have to counteract it.

I don't think it will hurt them at all.

We have got to get something out, and perhaps we've got to have it done.

And the part that I think here is, I think Chew is playing this game.

Maybe he's being clever for a change.

And he's leading his co-workers in the league.

I know about that, but what we have to think, the public relations in this country, we wait too long.

Just with that, I'll say, I'll, we've got to agree that I intend to stay in our public forward to the next year.

That's the goal of the government.

If we have time to, uh,

Yeah, last night I got a call from the Newsweek people.

Their main command is to socialize.

It's only a foot walk.

I don't want to die on it.

They want me to cut off that topic.

That's a change in my life.

He suddenly reminds me of real life.

You know, it was the first time I've ever been in Paris.

It's like your vision is clear.

Well, we had to do a 530 to show them the line.

But we knew that there was something, some type of speech that said, fine, okay, and went.

And you mentioned the same as what?

Uh-huh.

No, because we're ready to settle.

We don't require a word to settle, except if you are a general framework, you know, oh, and we need to come down and put it in, so I'm going to make sure it's not the first man.

We don't want that.

We don't want it.

I played very well with the Colts.

So you're right, Jerry Stein, the posture of the staff is the norm.

It is also a posture in the case they go public.

We're going to be in some trouble.

And I don't know if we can, but we can.

The point is we're screwed up.

I think we've got it.

Everything is that important.

We're just saying who shot John and that sort of thing.

And we're getting in there.

They don't believe in us.

That's right.

Our voice is most important.

And it's close enough that people are going to go into the passages the other one would take.

But, on the other hand, we lost one.

Why?

That's not the issue.

It worked just a hair away.

I don't have a point of reaction to the United States of America, because then they just went back and did every couple of things they had to do.

I'm sorry.

All right.

You see my problem, my point?

Yes, sir.

Is there any question on it?

We cannot have a hand over it until we agree to the information .

We'll have to do it in four or five, six days .

so there's a reason they're impressed by what they're doing, you know, if you hit the rogues, the rest of them, you know, well, they've got bad acts to them, you know, occasionally they're, you know, they're old, you know, they want a goddamn war ended, they would prefer not to have a coalition, they've got to admire who, what have they done, and develop a whole, you know, discerning arts, you know, just don't forget what happens, you know,

they have to be close to what was going on in the area.

And also, our host battery for the Russians in China.

They had to use batteries.

I mean, the Russians came back and, you know, they're, you know, they said, we can get this, and we can get this, and we can get this, and we can get this, and we can get this, and of course, there's political stability and

Is there anything more that I can hear?

I think Henry, you should, you see it's pretty dirty.

And I, uh, so I can't, I can't finish it.

I actually like to hear it every minute.

Yeah, he's got some, he's got some very, very good work.

On the other hand, I think we've got, I think now we've got to finish it on him.

Oh, no question that was.

That's why I sent it to him.

He said, you know, he's got a practical public situation with the Russian nation.

I mean, he certainly said that a lot.

He said, that's what I meant.

But he also has an opportunity to be stressed, which he's answered.

It's very clear in the local public.

You know, we just got to a point where we can't go on with this.

It's just so important for us.

there's nothing in it that they can't be very aware of or that they have nothing to be aware of and the absolute truth is that there's a lot to be done about it I think they're working on that but I don't know what that is they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're

Let's see what happens when we have the power on.

... ... ... ...

You break the magic.

Well, he'll have his magic.

And then I'll...

Apparently, you have already shown him the papers.

I don't know what the whole thing is.

What do you want me to do after we see him?

Well, I think it's better to have a dark body.

Well, I'm just going to show him what he's ready to say.

And I'll just... What do you want me to say?

Well, I know what the hell you're going to do after we see him.

Yeah, but hey, it's 3 p.m. on Saturday, isn't it?

We want to know what you do.

Yeah.

You're the best of the best when you know that you can get into and out of any one of their eyes.

First, just make sure you don't do the exact same thing.

And you might want to go back in and just send a message to them.

Otherwise, it's one of the ways to find them.

Okay.

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