Le Duc Tho

[ ley duhk toh ]

noun

1. Phan Dinh Khai, 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.

Example Sentences

He and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for working out a plan intended to end the war, but the 1973 agreement failed to stop the fighting and the war dragged on for more than two more years until Saigon finally fell.

From Los Angeles Times

Gallup found he was the most admired man in America in 1972 and in 1973, the year he won the Nobel Prize with Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam’s chief negotiator, for the accord under which America pulled out of South Vietnam.

From Seattle Times

He and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for hammering out a plan intended to end the war, but the agreement, announced in January 1973, failed to stop the fighting and the war dragged on for more than two more years until Saigon finally fell.

From Los Angeles Times

It won him the Nobel Peace Prize - alongside North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho - a decision bitterly attacked by peace campaigners.

From BBC

In 1973, he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize alongside North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho, who refused to accept.

From BBC