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Halberstam said that he thought presidential advisor Henry Kissinger meant and believed his pre-election message that "peace is at hand," because at the time the U.S. was closer to Hanoi than to Saigon...
Blum stumbles across the real reason for the continued failure of negotiations when he recognizes the issue of "the United States' right to maintain a controlling interest in Saigon's political and military apparatus." This "misunderstanding" is of course what the war has been about since the beginning U.S. intervention in the early fifties. Nixon has apparently not given up the goal of American hegemony in Indochina. It is the intransigence of him and other members of the U.S. political elite that have scuttled the prospects for peace settlements from 1954 onwards...
...officials presented a quite different picture of the bombing. A communique released by the U.S. military authorities in Saigon ticked off in businesslike fashion the targets American planes had been after: airfields, shipyards, railyards, warehouses, power plants, communication towers, truck parks, and SAM and antiaircraft installations. The report stated that dozens of these targets were destroyed or heavily damaged-the Phuc Yen airfield was bombed, the Hanoi port facility on the Red River hit hard, "all buildings" in the Haiphong petroleum-product storage area were struck, and the Thai Nguyen thermal power plant was virtually wiped out, and on down...
...reactions in the U.S. and round the world. Most of America's European allies were officially silent. The themes of world, reaction ranged from outrage, to a more moderate sadness, to a kind of unenthusiastic sympathy for the President's implacable line. Only on Taiwan and in Saigon were the raids greeted with almost unmitigated satisfaction. Then, with the bombing halt, came expressions of relief and hope mixed with recrimination. A sampling of reactions...
...Saigon daily newspaper Tin Song, regarded as an unofficial government spokesman: "To place Hanoi in a setting of terror and nightmare as to whether [the U.S.] is bombing or not, and when, is indeed the most meritorious reprisal against the equivocal Communist tricks at the [Paris] conference...