Former Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and Secretary of State William P. Rogers sign the Paris Peace Accords with representatives from South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong, which issues a ceasefire in Vietnam. The treaty stipulated the removal of American military personnel from Vietnam, the Vietnamese withdrawal from Laos and Cambodia, and the release of American prisoners-of-war.
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