That’s because in 1973 Le Duc Tho became the first and only person ever to voluntarily refuse a Nobel Peace Prize. The prize had been awarded jointly to Tho, ...

The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize to top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho, among the most disputed in the award's history, was given in the full knowledge the Vietnam War was ...

Less well-known, Le Duc Tho was also a hardliner who was already laying the groundwork for the invasion of South Vietnam two years later, in 1975. He is to this day the only person to decline the ...

Le Duc Tho. 1911-1990. Le Duc Tho, theVietnamese politician, is in the first place on our list 6 Nobel Prize Winners who Declined the Prize.

Former Vietnamese government official Le Duc Tho has been detained on charges he allegedly abused his “power and position to influence others for gains,” according to the country’s Public ...

Le Duc Tho Ten years of imprisonment by the French did not lessen Le's commitment to the Vietminh, or Vietnamese independence movement. He served as a senior Communist official from 1945 on, ...

The Paris Peace Accords, for which Mr. Kissinger shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 with Le Duc Tho, his North Vietnamese counterpart, quickly foundered on Hanoi's determination to conquer South ...

US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, member of Hanoi's Politburo, speak outside a suburban house at Gif-sur-Yvette in Paris after negotiations on June 13, 1973 [File ...

Top US diplomat Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 despite the officials involved fully aware that the Vietnam war was unlikely to end any ...

Should have done a Le Duc Tho. I guess it’s pretty hard to knock back a Nobel Peace prize even if you don’t need the dollars but it has been done once.