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Vietnamization was a 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] Brought on by the Viet Cong 's Tet ...
April 20, 1972 - Nixon announces plans to reduce U.S. troops in South Vietnam to 49,000 by July 1, 1972. August 29, 1972 - Nixon announces the further withdrawal of U.S. troops in South Vietnam to only 27,000 by December 1, 1972. November 7, 1972 - Nixon wins re-election. January 22, 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson dies.
Nixon announced plans to withdraw a further 35,000 U.S. troops. [5]: 314 19 September. Nixon cancelled the November and December Draft calls. [5]: 314 20 September. 74 of 75 persons on an Air Vietnam Douglas DC-4 were killed after a mid-air collision with a USAF F-4 Phantom. Both aircraft were approaching Da Nang Air Base when the F-4 clipped ...
On January 27, 1973, Henry Kissinger (then assistant to President Richard Nixon for national security affairs) agreed to a ceasefire with representatives of North Vietnam that provided for the withdrawal of American military forces from South Vietnam.
During a televised address on April 20, Nixon announced the withdrawal of 150,200 U.S. troops from South Vietnam during the year as part of the Vietnamization program. [11]: 562 This planned withdrawal implied restrictions on any offensive U.S. action in Cambodia. By early 1970, MACV still maintained 330,648 U.S. Army and 55,039 Marine Corps ...
Peace with Honor. "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." [1]
Following from the policy of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sought to reduce U.S. forces in South Vietnam. After a visit to South Vietnam in March 1969, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird recommended that planning begin for the withdrawal of 50–70,000 U.S. troops in 1969 with further withdrawals in 1970.
Initial talks did not result in an agreement, [165] and in May 1969 he publicly proposed to withdraw all American troops from South Vietnam provided North Vietnam did so, and suggesting South Vietnam hold internationally supervised elections with Viet Cong participation. [166] Nixon visits American troops in South Vietnam, July 30, 1969.