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Using the Boston Globe's timeline as a starting point, the question is when did Kerry go to Paris to meet with the Vietcong and NVM?

1969

April: Kerry ends his second and final tour in Vietnam.

[Pilots VVAW organizer Adam Walinsky around to rallies and attends Walinsky's "Moratorium" rally in DC--while still on active duty in the Navy.]

1970

January 3: Discharged from the Navy. [Early, so as to run for Congress.]

February: Kerry gives up on his first bid for office as a protest candidate in the race for the Third Congressional district. [This was his excuse for getting an early discharge from the Navy, so that he could run for Congress. He didn't run.]

May 23: Kerry marries Julia Thorne, his best friend's sister. [David Thorne, Kerry's best friend, was a major anti-war activist and the co-author with Kerry of his book, "The New Soldier."]

[September: Kerry attends the four day rally by VVAW called Operation RAW. He is the lead speaker, followed by Jane Fonda.]

1971

January: Attends ''Winter Soldier'' hearings in Detroit, but does not speak. [Kerry does SPEAK. He interviews at least one of the "witnesses" on camera for his pal George Butler's documentary of this event.]

April 22: Kerry testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [During which he parrots Scott Camil's testimony to the Winter Soldier Investigation and brags about his "negotiations" with the Vietcong and NVM.]

April 23: Kerry and other veterans throw medals and ribbons over a fence at the Capitol to protest the war.

June 20: Debates John O'Neill on ''The Dick Cavett Show.''