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President Nixon Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge the Chief American Negotiator to the Paris Peace Talks to End the War in Vietnam by Richard Nixon

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Title: President Nixon Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge the Chief American Negotiator to the Paris Peace Talks to End the War in Vietnam
Author: Richard Nixon
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 22/01/1969. In February 1953, Henry Cabot Lodge was named U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by President Eisenhower, with his office elevated to Cabinet level rank. The position then was high profile, and Lodge often engaged in debates with the UN representatives of the Soviet Union that were broadcast or covered on television. On the front lines in the Cold War, in 1959 he escorted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on a highly-publicized tour of the United States. Lodge left the ambassadorship during the election of 1960 to run for Vice President on the Republican ticket headed by Richard Nixon. Nixon selected Lodge because the latter had made a name for himself at the United Nations as a foreign-policy expert.President Kennedy appointed Lodge to the position of Ambassador to South Vietnam, which showed the import U.S. policymakers were coming to place on that nation. Lodge held the post from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1965 to 1967. As ambassador there, Lodge supported President Johnson's decision to escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War, believing that a Communist takeover in the South would be disastrous for U.S. foreign policy goals.The original appointment of “Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts”_as “Ambassador to head the United States Delegation at the Paris Meetings on Vietnam.”President Johnson and American military leaders had long insisted that the Vietnam War was going well, and that they could see the light at the end of the tunnel. But in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive in February 1968, when the Communists were able to initiate coordinated attacks on all the regional capitals throughout Vietnam, even in the American compound in Saigon itself, Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford issued a report to the President in mid-March that the United States could not win the war. Johnson was stunned, and he in turn stunned a nationwide audience on March 31,1968, announcing he would cease bombing north of the 20th parallel, initiate peace talks to end the war, and not seek renomination or reelection in 1968. The peace talks commenced in Paris on May 10, 1968, with W. Averill Harriman leading the U.S. delegation.From the outset, the talks were fraught with difficulties. The U.S. insisted on mutual withdrawal of American and North Vietnamese forces, which would leave the Saigon government in control. The North Vietnamese refused to negotiate anything until all bombing of North Vietnam was halted. When the U.S. finally agreed to that condition, the Johnson administration was unable to persuade, cajole, or coerce South Vietnam and its leader President Thieu to participate unless it was recognized as a legitimate party by its foes. It was alleged at the time that both candidates in the 1968 election were using the talks as a political football, with Hubert Humphrey seeking to appeal to pro-peace voters by insisting that the South Vietnamese participate, and more germanely, with Nixon leading the South Vietnamese to understand that his administration would give them a better deal if they would continue to delay. Formal negotiations would not begin until January 18, 1969, two days before Nixon took office.In the immediate aftermath of the 1968 election, it seems that Lodge was Nixon’s foremost advisor on Vietnam. He urged Nixon to appoint a man of stature to negotiate in Paris, and warned him away from a trip to Saigon for strategic reasons. Nixon adopted these suggestions. In fact, on January 5, 1969, fifteen days before his inauguration, President-elect Nixon named Lodge himself to succeed Harriman as chief U.S. negotiator at the Paris talks. This signaled that Nixon was likely to take a hard line in the talks, considering Lodge’s background as a proponent of American policy in Vietnam as promulgated by President Johnson and his chief military commander, Gen. William Westmoreland.Document Signed as President, Washington, January 22, 1969, just two days after his inauguration, being the original appointment of “Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts”_as “Ambassador to head the United States Delegation at the Paris Meetings on Vietnam.” The wording here is highly politically indicative, showing that Nixon avoided using the terms “peace,”_“talks,” “negotiations,” or “war.” These were simply “Meetings on Vietnam,” nothing more to be implied. The document is countersigned by Secretary of State William P. Rogers.On January 25, the first fully attended meeting of the formal Paris peace talks was held. Ambassador Lodge urged an immediate restoration of a genuine Demilitarized Zone as the first ""practical move toward peace."" He also suggested a mutual withdrawal of ""external"" military forces and an early release of prisoners of war. Tran Buu Kiem and Xuan Thuy, heads of the National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese delegations respectively, refused Lodge's proposals and condemned American ""aggression.""Meanwhile, Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s National Security Advisor, developed a two-track policy whereunder the Paris negotiators would discuss military matters, while the real political decisions would be made privately, out of the public eye, by the leadership in Washington and Hanoi directly. This would avoid public pressure from all directions, while also preventing the junior partners on either side, South Vietnam and the National Liberation Front, from exercising power to preclude a deal from happening. Nixon liked the idea, and determined that political negotiations would emanate from the White House. So as Lodge continued treating with the North Vietnamese in Paris, starting in early August, Kissinger was secretly meeting with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho. As the summer turned to fall, however, Kissinger’s approaches to Hanoi failed to elicit an acceptable response, and Nixon adopted a get tough policy to force an accommodation on his terms. In early October the President told Lodge to break off the talks by staging a walk-out at the October 23 plenary session. On the appointed day, Lodge insisted that the talks be adjourned, which they were immediately. Lodge himself had not favored this action, and he suggested that the President use him as a personal intermediary to Hanoi’s leaders who were frequently in Paris. Nixon declined.The only official, public negotiations to end the Vietnam War were over, never to resume. Nixon went directly to Camp David to work on a foreign policy address to the nation which he delivered on November 3. Dubbed the Silent Majority speech, in it he asked the American people to support his decision to continue the war until the North Vietnamese would accept “honorable” peace terms. On November 20, 1969, seeing no role remaining for a peace negotiator, Lodge resigned. The war did not end until January 23, 1973, four years and one day after Nixon had appointed Lodge to help end the conflict.

Novum testamentum graecum ... by Bible; Benito Arias Montano .

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Title: Novum testamentum graecum ...
Author: Bible; Benito Arias Montano .
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Description: Coloniae Allobrogum (i.e., Geneva) : Pierre de la Rovière, 1611. 16mo (13 cm); 2 volumes in one. 342, 239, [1] leaves. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek with interlinear Latin translation and commentary. Text and commentary within ruled borders. Elaborately gilt-tooled morocco armorial binding of l'abbé Genesse (i.e., of Genoa), with arms within a central lozenge enclosed in a motto and filigreed in all corners and within ruled borders on both boards; spine with filigreed central panel. Edges gilt. Pages generally toned with scattered foxing; light water stain on covers and in first 100 leaves. Binding reference: Tausin, "Dictionnaire des devises ecclésiastiques", 165. Arias Montano, librarian of El Escorial, was one of the principal editors of the great polyglot edition of the bible issued by the Plantin Press in 1571. (He was denounced to the Inquisition for liberality.) This edition of the Greek New Testament with Arias's extensive commentary is enclosed in an elaborate French binding, flat back, extensively tooled, bearing the arms of the Abbé Genesse with his motto, "Quae est expectatio mea, nonne dominus" (Psalm 38:8, What is my hope? Is it not the lord?).

Nonce collection of 6 illustrated surgical monographs: <br />1 - M Eulenberg: Die Pflege der Augen im gesunden und kranken Zustande ...., Berlin, Forstner, 1841, [4], [iii] - viii, [1] - 120 pp.; <br />2 - [F] M Baumgarten: Das Schielen und dessen operative Behandlung ...., Leipzig, Voss, 1841, viii, [1] - 88 pp. + folding engraved plate; <br />3 - P F von Walter: Ueber das Verhaltniss der Medicin zur Chirurgie ...., Carlsruhe, Herder, 1841, 48 pp; <br />4 - F Hartig: Beschreibung eines neuen Apparates zur Vereinigung des gespaltenen Gaumens ohne Nath ...., Braunschweig, Meyer, 1841, 45, [3 - blank] pp. + 6 litho. plates; <br />5 - G Hoering: Ueber den Sitz und die Natur des Grauen Staares ...., Heilbronn, Landherr, 1844, viii, [1] - 104 pp. + folding litho. plate; <br />6 - J G Hoffbauer: Ueber die Kopfverletzungen in Bezug auf ihre Gefahr und Todtlichkeit; und wie ihre Todtlichkeit in soro zu beurtheilen ist, Berlin, Forstner, 1842, [4], [5] - 80 pp.

Nonce collection of 6 illustrated surgical monographs:
1 - M Eulenberg: Die Pflege der Augen im gesunden und kranken Zustande ...., Berlin, Forstner, 1841, [4], [iii] - viii, [1] - 120 pp.;
2 - [F] M Baumgarten: Das Schielen und dessen operative Behandlung ...., Leipzig, Voss, 1841, viii, [1] - 88 pp. + folding engraved plate;
3 - P F von Walter: Ueber das Verhaltniss der Medicin zur Chirurgie ...., Carlsruhe, Herder, 1841, 48 pp;
4 - F Hartig: Beschreibung eines neuen Apparates zur Vereinigung des gespaltenen Gaumens ohne Nath ...., Braunschweig, Meyer, 1841, 45, [3 - blank] pp. + 6 litho. plates;
5 - G Hoering: Ueber den Sitz und die Natur des Grauen Staares ...., Heilbronn, Landherr, 1844, viii, [1] - 104 pp. + folding litho. plate;
6 - J G Hoffbauer: Ueber die Kopfverletzungen in Bezug auf ihre Gefahr und Todtlichkeit; und wie ihre Todtlichkeit in soro zu beurtheilen ist, Berlin, Forstner, 1842, [4], [5] - 80 pp. by GERMAN MEDICINE - NEUROLOGY - OPHTHALMOLOGY

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Title: Nonce collection of 6 illustrated surgical monographs:
1 - M Eulenberg: Die Pflege der Augen im gesunden und kranken Zustande ...., Berlin, Forstner, 1841, [4], [iii] - viii, [1] - 120 pp.;
2 - [F] M Baumgarten: Das Schielen und dessen operative Behandlung ...., Leipzig, Voss, 1841, viii, [1] - 88 pp. + folding engraved plate;
3 - P F von Walter: Ueber das Verhaltniss der Medicin zur Chirurgie ...., Carlsruhe, Herder, 1841, 48 pp;
4 - F Hartig: Beschreibung eines neuen Apparates zur Vereinigung des gespaltenen Gaumens ohne Nath ...., Braunschweig, Meyer, 1841, 45, [3 - blank] pp. + 6 litho. plates;
5 - G Hoering: Ueber den Sitz und die Natur des Grauen Staares ...., Heilbronn, Landherr, 1844, viii, [1] - 104 pp. + folding litho. plate;
6 - J G Hoffbauer: Ueber die Kopfverletzungen in Bezug auf ihre Gefahr und Todtlichkeit; und wie ihre Todtlichkeit in soro zu beurtheilen ist, Berlin, Forstner, 1842, [4], [5] - 80 pp.
Author: GERMAN MEDICINE - NEUROLOGY - OPHTHALMOLOGY
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good overall; some plate numerals at the fore-edge of the Hartig have been grazed.
Description: 1841 - 1844. First Editions.. Contemporary marbled paper over boards with a hand written label on the spine.. Very good overall; some plate numerals at the fore-edge of the Hartig have been grazed.. 8vo, The two exceptional monographs in the volume are the Hartig and Hoffbauer. Hoffbauer is best known for his early psychiatric studies. In this monograph he addresses the pathology of head wounds but also the methods and basis for judging them to be fatal. Hartig's work presents a non-surgical method of sealing a cleft palate - this is a mechanical method of joining the two parts and also addresses the derivation of such uncommon "mechanical" cures. A most interesting and little known work. Baumgarten addresses the surgical treatment of strabismus. He was a co-worker of Friedrich von Ammon in the relatively new field of plastic-surgery. The plate illustrates a number of operation specific instruments. Wilmer catalog, #39.

The King's County Directory ... Including a Short History by (Ireland, Co. Offaly [Ui Failghe])

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Title: The King's County Directory ... Including a Short History
Author: (Ireland, Co. Offaly [Ui Failghe])
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Parsonstown (Birr): King's County Chronicle, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 344 pp followed by 24pp of ads. Later red cloth, gilt spine, title from original binding onset onto upper board. Folding colored map of the county. A very good copy. The first King's County Directory. A short history, then extensive details on places and persons of interest in the County, including a three page discussion, with illustration, of the famed Rosse telescope in Parsonstown. .

The Old Man's Road by Auden, W. H.

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Title: The Old Man's Road
Author: Auden, W. H.
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Voyages Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition (so stated on copyright page) in plain wrappers and fine printed dust jacket, one of 750 copies. This is the regular edition, not the signed limited, and comes with the publisher's announcement slip laid in.

Die Fledermaus [Piano-vocal score] by STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

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Title: Die Fledermaus [Piano-vocal score]
Author: STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Leipzig ..: Aug. Cranz [PN F.S. No. 23422], 1966. Folio. Full dark red cloth with titling gilt and decorative device in olive green, black, and gilt to upper; patterned endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (contents), 2-168 pp. Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal wear; former owner's name to blank upper margin of title ("Emerich Voitek") in contemporary manuscript. Printed from first edition plates. "Over the next quarter of a century [from 1885] a further 14 operettas and even a grand opera (Ritter Pásmán, 1892) cemented Strauss's position as the leading light in 'Silver Age' Viennese operetta, though even in the composer's lifetime only three of these found international success: Die Fledermaus (1874), Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron." Peter Kemp in Grove Music Online.

[LITERATURE] THE GENTLEMANS MAGAZINE FOR MAY 1741 by Sylvanus Urban, Gent

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Title: [LITERATURE] THE GENTLEMANS MAGAZINE FOR MAY 1741
Author: Sylvanus Urban, Gent
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: E. Cave, at St. John’s Gate, 1741. Disbound. Very Good binding. The first publication to touch on all the aspects of a gentleman's life, from politics and economics to poetry and etiquette, and the first to call itself a "magazine". Full of charming and varied details about the lives and interests of educated and wealthy Brits of the eighteenth century.With satirical speeches from the Senate of Lilliput and an account of a bull’s running into the Pump Room at Bath. The woodcut of St. John's Gate graced the cover of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 200 years. Very Good binding.

Voltaire. by Besterman, Theodore.

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Title: Voltaire.
Author: Besterman, Theodore.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Bound in publisher's green cloth boards. Otherwise very good condition in good d/j. Biography of Voltaire by Dr. Besterman.
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1969. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards. Very good condition in good d/j. Biography of Voltaire by Dr. Besterman.. 22 cm. 637 pp. C. frontispiece. b/w plates

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