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Jan 3, 1973 - Secret peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed near Paris. Jan 12, 1973 - Yasir Arafat was re-elected as head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Jan 23, 1973 - President Nixon claimed that Vietnam peace had been reached in Paris and that the POWs would be home in 60 days. Jan 27, 1973 - The Paris Agreement froze the status quo on the ground in South Vietnam. The agreement by the United States and North Vietnam included a ban on infiltration of arms or personnel to reinforce North Vietnamese troops in the South, as well as a ban on the use of Laotian or Cambodian territory for that purpose. The Paris Agreement provided for continued US supply of the army of the Republic of Vietnam. Peace Accords were signed in Paris over events in Vietnam. Jan 29, 1973 - Field House at CAMP ATTERBURY destroyed by fire. |
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Feb 12, 1973 - The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place. |
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Oct 10, 1973 - Following months of pressure and scandal, Vice President Spiro Agnew turned in his letter of resignation to President Nixon. |
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Nov 17, 1973 - President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." |
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Dec 6, 1973 - House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew, vice president to President Richard M. Nixon, resigned from his office and pleaded no contest to one charge of income tax invasion in return for the dropping of all other charges. Agnew, the only US Vice President to resign in disgrace, was fined $10,000 and given three year's probation.
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