Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
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]
July 25, 1969 - The Nixon Doctrine is announced in an informal press conference by President Nixon. July 30, 1969 - President Nixon visits South Vietnam for the first and only time. October 15, 1969 - Hundreds of thousands of people attend mass protests across the United States for the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War. November 15 ...
The Nixon Administration embarked upon a policy of "Vietnamization", or turning over ground combat to the South Vietnamese. Despite the name, significant numbers of American troops continued to fight in Vietnam in 1969 and onward; the scaling back was gradual, and the US continued to support South Vietnam heavily in supplies and with air power.
President Nixon says unjust wage and price increases being asked for by the labor and management groups will result in them being priced "out of the market". [130] President Nixon says the Vietnam War could end sooner if unity across the US occurs in response to criticisms of his foreign policy. [131]
Nixon was briefed on the war by members of the Johnson Administration and agreed that Johnson could follow current policy until his inauguration. [69]: 278 12 November. Clifford warned that if South Vietnam continued refusing to participate in the Paris Peace Talks the U.S. would start negotiating without them. [69]: 278 13 November
1971 newsreel about the peace talks. Following the strong showing of anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary, in March 1968 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson halted bombing operations over the northern portion of North Vietnam (Operation Rolling Thunder), in order to encourage Hanoi (the perceived locus of the insurgency) to begin negotiations.