Co-laureates announced on this day of the same year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee controversially decided to award the prize, following the Paris Peace Accords, to the delegates of the United States of America and North Vietnam, Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ respectively. The treaty negotiated and signed without the input or endorsement of the senate or the government of South Vietnam, having been derailed several times over the demands that all prisoners of war be released, American intervention in the war was ended and troops withdrawn (see previously) leading to an almost immediate resumption of the conflict. 
Thọ outright refused the questionable honour and Kissinger accepted it only in absentia, fearing the optics of protesters at the ceremony. Kissinger subsequently tried to return the award but the Nobel committee did not want it back. Consideration given to forty-four other nominees that year, deliberations included author Pearl S Buck for work in humanitarian projects and championing racially mixed children, Indira Gandhi, the Hague, Spurgeon Milton Keeny for work in family planning and reproductive choice and Luis Kutner for advocating for a universal law of habeas corpus to counter arbitrary imprisonment and exile, Josip Broz Tito, Universala Esperanto-Asocio and sponsored by several members of congress Richard Milhous Nixon for accomplishments promoting lasting world peace. Further criticism includes recipients Jimmy Carter, the European Union, Shimon Peres with Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama, whose, in the minds of some, electoral award pressed Donald Trump to the to pursue the same circuit of honours.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Rocky & Bullwinkel and the Cuba Missile Crisis (with synchronopticæ) plus assorted links worth the revisit
sixteen years ago: home-heating units
