10/16/1973: Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the cease-fire and American withdrawal from Vietnam. There was some controversy around this, in that Le Duc Tho declined the prize, on the grounds that peace had not been achieved yet in South Vietnam. Indeed, it was true [...]