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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]
U.S. Marine Corps mortar platoon in April 1969, the month when U.S. presence in Vietnam peaked with 543,000 deployed troops. While the project was promoted as a response to President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, it has been an object of criticism. [11] Regarding the consequences of the program, a 1989 study sponsored by the DoD concluded ...
The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the course of the war a large segment of Americans became opposed to U.S. involvement. In January 1967, only 32% of Americans thought the US had made a mistake in sending troops. [222]
Vietnamization was a failed policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". [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 ...
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."
Harsh policies have disproportionately hurt minorities for 50 years. Drug use and addiction are public health issues and should be treated that way.
Some in the film, including Nixon’s personal aide Stephen Bull, argue that Nixon’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam were only a bluff meant to intimidate his adversaries, but former RAND analyst and nuclear war planner Daniel Ellsberg states, “The bottom line is I believe we would have had the first nuclear attacks since Nagasaki ...