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January 1957: Eisenhower Rejects Soviet Proposal for Permanent Division of Vietnam

US President Dwight Eisenhower rejects a Soviet proposal that North and South Vietnam remain permanently divided and join the United Nations as separate states. [Karnow, 1997, pp. 692]