AMBASSADOR BUNKER HOST TO DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER,
MR. TRAN VAN LAM AT JULY FOURTH COMMEMORATION

SAIGON, JULY 4, 1971 -- Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, American Ambassador to the Republic of Viet Nam (left) was host to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Mr. Tran Van Lam at his July Fourth Commemoration in 1971. Dr. Kissinger, then Assistant to President Nixon for National Security Affairs is now U.S. Secretary of State; Mr. Lam, then RVN Foreign Minister, is now Chairman of the RVN Senate. Dr. Kissinger's July 3-5 visit to Saigon was the first stop in a ten-day fact-finding trip to Southeast Asia for President Nixon.

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SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER CONCLUDES
TALKS IN SAIGON

SAIGON, OCTOBER 23, 1972 -- After concluding major portions of a peace agreement with North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, then Assistant to President Nixon for National Security Affairs, visited the Republic of Viet Nam to discuss the proposals. The exchange of view continued right up to Dr. Kissinger's departure at Tan Son Nhut Airport. Participants in the discussions included, in the group above, left to right, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, then U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Viet Nam, then RVN Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Tran Kim Phuong, Dr. Kissinger and then Assistant to the President for External Affairs Mr. Nguyen Phu Duc.

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