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Shortly before 11 a.m. on Oct. 16, 1973, a Situation Room officer interrupted a meeting of the Washington Special Actions Group on the Middle East to deliver an Associated Press news bulletin. It announced that North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho and I had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for our efforts to end the Viet...
...even known that I was a candidate. I threw the dispatch on the table. My colleagues read it with astonishment rather than jubilation; they congratulated me but without real passion. For we all were ill at ease. I knew that unless the agreement that Le Due Tho and I had worked out could be enforced, the structure of peace for Indochina was unlikely to last. I would have been far happier with recognition for a less precarious achievement. I am prouder of what I accomplished in the next two years in the Middle East...
...prize in his name 80 years ago, he specified that it be given for the "best work for fraternity between nations." In the past decade some of the Nobel choices have caused more friction than fraternity, notably the 1973 joint award to North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for their role in ending the Viet Nam War; and the 1978 prize to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for the Camp...
...Tho'much is taken, much abides...
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