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===Major Controversies===

===Major Controversies===

Kissinger advised both the Johnson administration and the Nixon campaign during the hotly contested 1968 Presidential election.  He gave detailed analysis to both sides, without revealing to Johnson his contacts in the Nixon team.  Johnson's prefered candidate, [[Hubert Humphrey]], used the possibility of a peace accord in Vietnam to gain a short-lived boost in the polls.  The Nixon campaign told the South Vietnamese "''hold on, we're going to win,''" according to the FBI, indicating that they should refrain from consenting to the accords because a Nixon White House could offer them a better deal.  Although Kissinger did not play a direct role in relaying this message, his critics charge that the inside knowledge he shared with the Nixon team informed them as to the very real possibility of a settlement in Vietnam--a settlement that might have proven politically problematic.  The South Vietnamese, of course, rejected the proposal, which would have amounted to a six-month armistice before the North renewed its invasion.  But critics claim that without Nixon, egged on by Kissinger, egging them on; they might have acquiseced to surrender.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7slAt9PIH0&feature=fvw Link on Youtube to the relevant part of BBC's cheap propaganda "documentary" ''The Trials of Henry Kissinger.''</ref>

Kissinger advised both the Johnson administration and the Nixon campaign during the hotly contested 1968 Presidential election.  He gave detailed analysis to both sides, without revealing to Johnson his contacts in the Nixon team.  Johnson's preferred candidate, [[Hubert Humphrey]], used the possibility of a peace accord in Vietnam to gain a short-lived boost in the polls.  The Nixon campaign told the South Vietnamese "''hold on, we're going to win,''" according to the FBI, indicating that they should refrain from consenting to the accords because a Nixon White House could offer them a better deal.  Although Kissinger did not play a direct role in relaying this message, his critics charge that the inside knowledge he shared with the Nixon team informed them as to the very real possibility of a settlement in Vietnam--a settlement that might have proven politically problematic.  The South Vietnamese, of course, rejected the proposal, which would have amounted to a six-month armistice before the North renewed its invasion.  But critics claim that without Nixon, egged on by Kissinger, egging them on; they might have acquiesced to surrender.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7slAt9PIH0&feature=fvw Link on Youtube to the relevant part of BBC's cheap propaganda "documentary" ''The Trials of Henry Kissinger.''</ref>

Kissinger was also accused of intentionally abandoning South Vietnam to Communist forces, the accusation which probably hurts him most today.  He responded to this charge as follows:

Kissinger was also accused of intentionally abandoning South Vietnam to Communist forces, the accusation which probably hurts him most today.  He responded to this charge as follows:

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Faced with a military setback and diplomatic isolation, Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's principal negotiator, abandoned Hanoi's 1969 terms in October 1972. He accepted conditions publicly put forward by President Nixon in January 1972 - and decried as unachievable in the American domestic debate. He said that "this new proposal is exactly what President Nixon has himself proposed: cease-fire, end of the war, release of the prisoners and troop withdrawal . and we propose a number of principles on political problems. You have also proposed this. And we shall leave to the South Vietnamese parties the settlement of these questions."

Faced with a military setback and diplomatic isolation, Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's principal negotiator, abandoned Hanoi's 1969 terms in October 1972. He accepted conditions publicly put forward by President Nixon in January 1972 - and decried as unachievable in the American domestic debate. He said that "this new proposal is exactly what President Nixon has himself proposed: cease-fire, end of the war, release of the prisoners and troop withdrawal, and we propose a number of principles on political problems. You have also proposed this. And we shall leave to the South Vietnamese parties the settlement of these questions."

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