It is largely considered fact that Kissenger stalled the peacetalks in 1968 (as chief of negoations) because he knew that Nixon would offer him the job of secretary of state, if he did so. Even the North Vietnam government was surprised when they were ready to sign off on a number of conditions, and Kissenger just went into additional conditions. And the end of the war? It only came when Nixon was ready for it to end...and jump-started the peacetalks by using B-52s and quickly bringing all the players to the table in a very short period of time.
As much as I hate Albright...I think she was more accountable and true to the nation than Kissenger ever was.
Further, the peace talks didn't even start for a protracted period thereafter, over a dispute on the shape of the table and who would get to sit where - meaning the N Viets would not allow S Viet to attend as an equal. Nixon escalated and expanded the attacks in SoutEast Asia as we withdrew in constant effort to bring the N Viets to an agreement.
It was Johnson who launced a "Christmas Bombing". Nixon finally won teh peace by mining the N Viet harbors and choking off their supplies.
I lived through it and I don't know where you got the fantasy that Nixon delayed getting a peace treaty deliberately for 4 years. That is pure nonsense. And Nixon got a treaty that would never have been violated if he remained as president. It was the democrats in Congress who gave N Viet a pass on a giant tank attack after Nixon resigned (once again the honorable approach versus scumbag Clinton and his puppet Albright).
But then I can't take you seriously after you just said that moron Albright and scoundrel Clinton were more "true" to our nation than Nixon and Kissinger. It was Clinton who TOOK THE CHICOM'S ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CASH, sold them advanced computers for their nuclear missile program, and embraced them as "strategic partners" as they were emerging as our greatest threat.
He probably stalled the peace talks in 1968 so as to give Nixon time to fight his secret war in Cambodia. We all remember John Kerry's recollections of Christmas 1968, which he spent in Cambodia after being ordered there by President Nixon.