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"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."
During Nixon's first year in office, from January 1969 to January 1970, about another 10,000 Americans were killed fighting in Vietnam. [3] Though Nixon talked much in 1969 of his plans for "Peace with Honor" and Vietnamization, the general feeling at the time was that Nixon's policies were essentially the same as Lyndon Johnson's.
The Paris Peace Accords (Vietnamese: Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam), officially the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace agreement signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War ...
Nixon promised "peace with honor" in the Vietnam War and proclaimed that "new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific". [143] He did not give specifics of how he hoped to end the war, resulting in media intimations that he must have a "secret plan". [143] His slogan of "Nixon's the One" proved to be effective. [141]
On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, announced his resignation. In a television address from the Oval Office, Nixon said: %shareLinks-quote="By taking this ...
On April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States and the 36th vice president, died after suffering a significant stroke four days earlier, at the age of 81. His state [1] funeral followed five days later at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in his hometown of Yorba Linda, California.
A bust of former U.S. President Richard Nixon is displayed in the corridor where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S ...
[3]: 27 With respect to the then-ongoing Vietnam War, the president declared that "As our involvement with the war in Vietnam comes to an end, we must go on to build a generation of peace". [4]: 189 (The war actually ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975, three years later, making the president's declaration read as premature in retrospect.