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#OTD 1/23/1973 National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger shaking hands with North Vietnamese negotiator Lê Đức Thọ in Paris after forging an agreement on the final Vietnam peace treaty that would be signed by authorized senior officials a few days later. (Image: WHPO-E0075-02)

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Le Duc Tho Is The Only Person To Have Refused The ...

Nearly 100 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. The winner is "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between ...

Nearly 100 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. The winner is "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Only one person has ever refused the honor: Le Duc Tho, a North Vietnamese politician and diplomat.

Thanks, But No Thanks

In 1973, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize jointly to Tho and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for negotiating a peace settlement during the Vietnam War. Problem was, their truce was almost immediately violatedand the Vietnam War continued until 1975. Le Duc Tho, as a result, refused to accept the prize.

The public agreed with Tho's decision. When the prize was originally announced, Time reported that it was met with "an unprecedented storm of criticism," and one reader who wrote in even compared giving the diplomats the Nobel Peace Prize to giving a prostitute "an award for extreme virtue."

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Le Duc Tho, Henry Kissinger and DRV and US delegations at the Paris Peace Talks, November 1972. Source: Alamy Stock Photos.

On 7th November 1972, President Richard Nixon was re-elected, defeating his Democratic challenger, Senator George McGovern, by a landslide. With political uncertainty out of the way, Kissinger and Le Duc Tho plus their respective delegations, resumed formal peace talks in Paris on 20th November. Kissinger presented his opposite number with sixty nine amendments, produced by President Thieu, to their previous informal October agreement, including the withdrawal of all PAVN troops from South Vietnam, a demand supported by Nixon.

Le Duc Tho felt the Americans were negotiating in bad faith and that Thieu was exerting an effective veto on the proposals despite what Tho viewed were significant DRV concessions, particularly the commitment to end the “popular uprising” in the South indefinitely and to achieve reunification of Vietnam through peaceful means. The talks broke down into mutual antagonism before collapsing altogether in early December. A negotiated settlement to the Vietnam War seemed as far away as ever.

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Henry Kissinger in Discussion with Le Duc Tho, Paris, October 1972. Source: HistoryNet

On 8th October 1972, after intense personal discussions between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in Paris, a breakthrough seemed to be reached when the two men agreed the basis for full American withdrawal from Vietnam and safeguards for the continuance of the Saigon regime after that withdrawal. However, Kissinger found himself unable to persuade President Thieu that his agreement with Tho contained sufficient guarantees for the RVN’s sovereignty. Specifically, Thieu demanded that any accord that secured US withdrawal from South Vietnam was matched by NVA withdrawal from the South too, particularly from territory the North Vietnamese had acquired during the Easter Offensive.

Frustrated by Thieu’s opposition, Hanoi Radio broadcast details of the agreement to the world in an effort to pressure Kissinger to overrule Thieu. In response, and in an effort to reassure the DRV, Kissinger publicly announced that “peace is at hand”.

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PREMIO NOBEL DELLA PACE

Le Duc Tho dalla Treccani.it:

Quindi premiato pure per accordi NON rispettati

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GUERRA DEL VIETNAM (Wikipedia.it):

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Bán Nhà Mặt Phố Lê Đức Thọ 200m2 x 9 Tầng, 2 Mặt Tiền 18m, Giá Đầu Tư

Bán nhà mặt phố Lê Đức Thọ, phường Mỹ Đình 2, quận Nam Từ liêm, Hà Nội. Nhà có diện tích sổ đỏ 176,5m2, thực tế đang sử dụng gần 200m2, mặt tiền 9m, hậu 9m cực vuông vắn. Xây 8 tầng nổi, 1 tầng hầm khung bê tông cốt thép cực kiên cố, thang máy nhập

Bán nhà mặt phố Lê Đức Thọ, phường Mỹ Đình 2, quận Nam Từ liêm, Hà Nội. Nhà có diện tích sổ đỏ 176,5m2, thực tế đang sử dụng gần 200m2, mặt tiền 9m, hậu 9m cực vuông vắn. Xây 8 tầng nổi, 1 tầng hầm khung bê tông cốt thép cực kiên cố, thang máy nhập

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On This Day in History January 23, 1973: Based on the negotiations that led to the Paris Peace Accords, United States President Richard Nixon declares that an agreement for a cease fire was reached between United States representative National Security Advisor (and later concurrently as Secretary of State in 1973) Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnam's chief negotiator, Le Duc Tho. 

The agreement called for a cease fire to begin on January 27, 1973 at midnight Hanoi time with all American prisoners of war being released and the remaining 23,700 American force in South Vietnam to be withdrawn within 60 days. According to the Battlefield Vietnam PBS website:

Of the more than 3 million Americans who have served in the war, almost 58,000 are dead, and over 1,000 are missing in action. Some 150,000 Americans were seriously wounded.

The last American troops left Vietnam on March 29, 1973.

For Further Reading:

Nixon’s ‘Peace With Honor’ Broadcast On Vietnam January 23, 1973 from the Watergate.info website This page includes the transcript of Nixon's speech and an audio recording 

Vietnam Accord is Reached; Cease-Fire Begins Saturday; P.O.W.'s to be Free in 60 Days by Bernard Gwertzman from the New York Times dated January 24, 1973

MILESTONES: 1969–1976: Ending the Vietnam War, 1969–1973 from the US Department of State Office of the Historian

THE PEACE ACCORDS (1973) AND RELEASE OF POWs: Study Module for Online Course, Fall 1999 from the University of Richmond

THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON VIETNAM: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, Conference Transcript, The Nixon Center, Washington, DC,   April 1998 from the Mount Holyoke website