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...full-time assistants (and this is when he is on sabbatical) is not leaping out of his leather-bound chair to lunch with me at Bartley's Burgers. The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati pays the man $15,000 to speak. He's consulting with Mia Farrow, and mike Tyson is on hold from inside his cell...
...watched and listened to by more than 4 million people. A King interview nudged Ross Perot into the presidential arena. Another caused Dan Quayle to ruminate on what he might do if his daughter decided to have an abortion. Last week King questioned Henry Kissinger on the POW-MIA issue, while Perot was dickering with King's producers about using the show to announce whether he would re-enter the race...
...partly Kissinger's backchannel methods that made it more difficult to enforce the 1973 treaty and that created the distrust that has surrounded the MIA issue ever since. Kissinger negotiated the Vietnam Peace Accord secretly, cutting Congress and even the State Department out of the process. And on two crucial issues in the final agreement, this furtiveness bordered on deceit...
...these letters. Instead, in between the signing of the treaty and the sending of the letters, they misleadingly informed Congress that there were "no secret deals" involving economic aid. Congress balked at the aid package and thus removed one of Kissinger's bargaining chips for dealing with the MIA issue...
...same was true on the issue of whether the U.S. would be willing to enforce the Paris agreement by retaliating militarily against violations on the MIA issue and others. Kissinger drafted letters, which Nixon signed, making such pledges to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress...