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During his 1971 Christmas tour, Bob Hope flew to Laos to confer with Nguyen Van Tranh, first secretary of the North Vietnamese embassy. Wanting to negotiate the release of American POWs, Hope suggested that American children could raise money to benefit North Vietnamese children suffering because of the war. “Wouldn’t it be great if we had peace and you could come and entertain in Hanoi,” Hope reported Tranh as saying. The effort came to naught.