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...Cambodia speech, President Nixon said that his ordering troops into Cambodia is not an invasion, because he will withdraw the troops when mission is accomplished. The last time I heard exactly the same argument, it was made by the Soviets in regard to their involvement in Czechoslovakia...
Within the past few weeks, the enemy has launched an armed invasion of Cambodia and built up his forces at points clearly menacing American and allied positions. In responding, the President has simply done what he said he would do. The notion that this is somehow a change of policy or an escalation of the war is nonsense. We are fighting the same war against the same enemy in the same place. The only difference is that at long last we have a President who recognizes the folly of letting the enemy establish one set of rules for our conduct...
...John Dempsey of Connecticut. On short notice, Nixon dropped in on a meeting of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council, a body that has always been staunch in its support of the war. So it is still, and Nixon took the occasion to report the "enormous success" of the Cambodia venture...
...talks with newsmen, conceded that it would take some time to prove just how much the foray had accomplished. "We're going to know by the end of June," Rogers told a press conference. "See where we are in July and August," said Laird. As battlefield action in Cambodia sharpened -the venture had cost 140 American lives through last week-Laird and Rogers tried to accentuate the peaceful. Laird predicted that by July 1971 South Vietnamese rather than Americans would be handling all the major combat in Viet Nam. Both men reaffirmed the Administration's pledge that...
...critics worried that the South Vietnamese would stay in Cambodia after a U.S. pullout, as South Viet Nam's leaders asserted, and that the U.S. would remain involved in order to furnish logistical support. With both U.S. and South Vietnamese energies thus diverted, would Vietnamization and U.S. withdrawals from Viet Nam be slowed? Laird and Rogers denied it, but not so categorically as to dispel all doubts. Rogers, for instance, refused to rule out future air strikes in Cambodia. Nor did the Administration quarrel with Senator John Stennis's argument against congressional restraints on U.S. military action...