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Nixon had finished a press conference at 10 p.m. on May 8, in which he had been questioned about his decision to expand American operations in Cambodia as part of the Vietnam War. Nixon then made 20 telephone calls to various people including Billy Graham and Thomas E. Dewey and the NBC reporter Nancy Dickerson. [1]
In his speech, Nixon professed to share the goal of the protesters of peace in Vietnam, but he argued that the United States had to win in Vietnam, which would require keeping the war going until such a time that the government of North Vietnam ceased trying to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. [11] Nixon implicitly conceded the point ...
On January 3, 1972, Kissinger sent a one-page classified memo to Nixon as a routine update on the Vietnam War. After receiving the memo, Nixon tilted it sideways and wrote in pen to Kissinger: [6] K. We have had 10 years of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam. The result = Zilch. There is something wrong with the strategy or the Air Force.
Nixon and Kissinger’s "madman" strategy and the various military options under consideration, including resumption of bombing of North Vietnam, the mining of Haiphong harbor, and the use of tactical nuclear weapons, are outlined in what was called Operation Duck Hook and other formerly classified documents shown in the film.
The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and chanted, "USA, All the way" and "America, love it or leave it."
[10]: 606 Nixon had vowed to end the Vietnam War by November 1, 1969 and failed to do so while in the fall of 1969 he had seen two of his nominations to the Supreme Court rejected by the Senate. [10]: 606 Nixon had taken the rejection of his nominations to the Supreme Court as personal humiliations, which he was constantly brooding over.
A "full, free, and absolute pardon" Questions dogged Ford right after he took office on Aug. 9, 1974, the morning after Nixon announced he would resign the presidency.. Ford, eager to put Nixon ...
"Peace with Honor" was a phrase U.S. President Richard Nixon used in a speech on January 23, 1973 to describe the Paris Peace Accords to end the Vietnam War.The phrase is a variation on a campaign promise Nixon made in 1968: "I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam."