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...American insistence on bombing the North will likely strengthen Ho's resolve to persist for at least several more years. His experiences at Geneva in 1954 and with the French at the end of World War II make him understandably leery of talks with the West. And Johnson's apparent attempt to weaken the North Vietnamese bargaining hand will only reinforce his reluctance to deal with the United States...
...other hand, President Johnson may believe that continued piecemeal devastation of the North could, in the indefinite future, bring the enemy to his knees-and ruin Ho Chi Minh's bargaining position. But if this is true, then the President is disingenuous when he predicts meaningful concessions from both sides. North Vietnam could only interpret this attitude as a valid U.S. desire for total victory...
...Vietnam and further a détente with the U.S. It should be able to accept, as it did in Laos, a relatively stable non-aligned government in the South; it has never been very loud in supporting demands that all of Vietnam be reunified by force under Ho Chi Minh...
Kosygin, to his credit, has aparently conceded the futility of such a demand. For he, maybe Ho, realize that a twenty-year was culminating in victory is of little consolation at this time. The Soviet government has more pressing concerns than the possibility that a part of Vietnam may not become Communist. President Johnson would do well to appreciate Kosygin's attitude, stop the bombing, and end the war so that he, too, can get more done at Home...
...peace talks could get under way. That statement would seem to imply that some of the preconditions Hanoi had previously set for talks have been discarded. Recent reports from the North itself indicate that Hanoi's four-point formula no longer has to be accepted in its entirety before Ho enters talks. One of the four points-that the future affairs of South Vietnam must be settled according to the program of the National Liberation Front-has always been repugnant to the United States...