Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though a carefully phased redeployment should certainly be tried, I doubt that American opinion will any longer sit still for it. The announcement of the first troop withdrawals made clear that from now on America will regard the war as, at most, a rearguard action...
This is not a happy prediction and I hope I am wrong, for America is by no means prepared either intellectually or emotionally for such an outcome. In fact, if we are to save ourselves from a long, angry season of divisive name-calling and isolationist frog-croaking, we had better get down to realistic discussion as soon as possible...
Rebuff Ahead. Despite the importance of the Viet Nam speech, other events converged on the President demanding his attention. His address on Latin America, which proved more pragmatic than inspiring, drew a mixed response south of the border. The General Electric strike posed a threat to the economy (see THE WORLD and BUSINESS). Nixon was stung by the Supreme Court decision insisting on the instant school integration that he had earlier termed "extreme...
...kept the arms race going. Administration advocates of arms control believe that the U.S.S.R. is simply trying to achieve parity with the U.S. in order not to negotiate from weakness. There is Soviet testimony to support that view. Georgy Arbatov, one of the Soviet Union's leading America watchers, believes that there is no longer a significant strategic gap between the two countries-and that this will make it easier for them to act on their concern for limiting the arms race...
...disappointment, if not an outright failure, and many disillusioned Latin Americans were seriously asking whether the U.S., preoccupied with Viet Nam and domestic crises, really cared. Not until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give his answer. "We do care," he told Latin America. "I care." The President could hardly have said less. But how much did he care? And in what ways? Nixon expressed his concern rather quietly, in the form of a sedate and pragmatic U.S. approach to relations with its neighbors. Businesslike and low-keyed, his proposals were...