Item COLD WAR 29/11 - Transcript of interview with presidential aide Nha Duc Hoang, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Nha Duc Hoang, Press Secretary, Chief of Staff and Minister for Information to President Nguyen Van Thieu, Republic of South Vietnam, 1967-1975, relating to President Thieu's opinion of US President Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969; Thieu's awareness of the anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the USA, 1968-1969; student protests and mass demonstrations against the US involvement in the Vietnam War, Washington DC, USA, 1968-1969; the meeting between Thieu and Nixon, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, 1969; the US 'Vietnamisation' programme, the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam coupled with an increased role for the armed forces of the Republic of South Vietnam, Jun 1969-1973; the South Vietnamese government's knowledge of the peace negotiations between the USA and North Vietnam, Paris, France, 1969-1972; the reaction of President Thieu to the draft peace agreement agreed between the USA and North Vietnam, Oct 1972; the exclusion of President Thieu from the peace negotiations, 1972; Thieu's opinion that Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1970-1972, was concentrating on the possibility of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize instead of negotiating a fair peace settlement for the Republic of South Vietnam, 1972; the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the chief of the North Vietnamese negotiating team, 1973; the signing, by the government of the Republic of South Vietnam, of a revised peace settlement, Jan 1973; the influence of the Watergate scandal and the resignation of US President Nixon on the USA's failure to support the Republic of South Vietnam during the North Vietnamese invasion, [1975]; Thieu's opinion of US President Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977; the lack of support for the Republic of South Vietnam in the US Congress, 1974-1975; US involvement in Hoang's resignation as Minister of Information, Republic of South Vietnam, Nov 1974; the takeover of the Republic of South Vietnam by North Vietnam, 1975; President Thieu and Hoang's sense of betrayal caused by the US withdrawal from and abandonment of the Republic of South Vietnam, 1973-1975; Hoang's opinion of the US involvement in the politics and war in Vietnam, 1961-1975; the influence of the US Presidential election on the Vietnamese peace process, 1972. 22pp