| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Dreamin Posts: 3,390 Points: 21,520, Level: 92 | Level up: 17%, 830 Points needed |  |  Kissinger told China communist takeover in Vietnam was acceptable: documents WASHINGTON (AP) - Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops - even as the war to drive back the Communists dragged on with mounting deaths.
The late U.S. president Richard Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina." Kissinger's blunt remarks surfaced in a collection of papers from his years of diplomacy released Friday by George Washington University's National Security Archive. The collection was gathered from documents available at the U.S. government's National Archives and obtained through the research group's declassification requests. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060526/w052690.html |