<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - Ngo-1956, uMongameli uDwight D. Eisenhower wamisa uParsons njengoNxusa wase-United States eLaos, inhloko yenxusa lase-United States eVientiane, kanti uParsons wethula izincwadi zakhe zokugunyaza ngo-October 12, 1956. Njenge-ambassador eMbusweni waseLaos phakathi neMpi Yombango yaseLaos  <response>: , UParsons waziwa ngokusekela kukahulumeni wase-Eisenhower uHulumeni waseRoyal Lao ngokumelene nePathet Lao. Umsebenzi wakhe eLaos waphela ngo-February 8, 1958. UParsons uqhubeke nokusekela inqubomgomo kahulumeni yaseLaos ngo-1959-61, ngesikhathi lapho asebenza khona njengoMsizi kaNobhala Wezwe Wezindaba ZaseMpumalanga Asia nasePacific. Wangena esikhundleni ngo-July 1, 1959, futhi washiya isikhundla ngo-March 30, 1961. Lapho efakaza phambi kwe-United States Congress ngo-March 1961, uParsons wathi umthwalo wemfanelo wase-United States eLaos ngempela mkhulu kakhulu, futhi ngithemba ukuthi ngeke kube khona ukungaqondi ngokuqina nokuqina kwethu. Encwadini yakhe yango-1965 ethi A Thousand Days, u-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wayegxeka kakhulu indlela u-Ambassador Parsons ayesondela ngayo eLaos uSchlesinger wayethanda ukungathathi hlangothi kwamaMelika phakathi kwabasebukhosini nabavukeli, ethi uParsons wayengasiqondi kahle isimo. UParsons akakaze aphendule obala kulokhu noma kwezinye ukugxekwa okufanayo. 