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| Colorado Russ... |
 Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:47 am |
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The committee's most-controversial prize was probably the 1973
selection of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his
counterpart, Le Duc Tho, for their efforts to end the Vietnam War. The
North Vietnamese negotiator declined the award, the only recipient to
do so in the prize's 108-year history.
Mr. Kissinger, who guided war policy in the Nixon administration,
accepted, prompting musical satirist Tom Lehrer to respond: "It was at
that moment that satire died. There was nothing more to say after
that."
From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125513058590377255.html?mod=WSJ_myyahoo_module |
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