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...Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.) said Johnson's letter to Ho added a further condition to the U.S. position on de-escalation -- "that we have evidence that Hanoi has already ceased infiltration before we stop the bombing...
WASHINGTON, D.C.; March 21 -- President Johnson Personally wrote to North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh on Feb. 8 with a package offer aimed at initiating direct U.S.-North Vietnamese peace talks, it was disclosed today...
...Ho rejected Johnson's proposal in a personal letter delivered on Feb. 15 -- the day after the lunar new year cease fire truce -- when the United States resumed bombing the North...
Understandably, the President is shifting his public outlook from the punitive war against the North to the U.S.'s more diversified efforts in the South. His attempts to get Ho Chi Minh to a conference table during the first two months of the year failed--principally because Washington refused to extend the Tet bombing pause unless it saw evidence that the North had "reciprocally" reduced its aid to the Viet Cong. Nonetheless, this was an extremely frustrating period for Johnson since public feeling that the war might end had soared...
...decisions to hit the steel mill in the North, to shell the North's coast, to lob artillery shells across the demilitarized zone--will have the effect of making peace more remote than ever. And the military tantrum which resulted from Johnson's recent bout of impatience with Ho will probably convince the North that future talk in Washington about peace and "unconditional discussions...