Word: indochina
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...American government had had any sense, it would have begun to withdraw from Indochina as soon as the domestic opposition began to grow. If President Kennedy had lived, perhaps this would actually have happened. In any case, it's impossible to believe that if Johnson in 1964--let alone Eisenhower in 1958--had known what the war was going to do to the United States, he would have continued to fight, since America had no vital economic or strategic interests in Indo china. But the American government was not sensible, it had become locked into its policy, it believed that...
...Watergate hearings might better be viewed as the last act of the struggle against America's war on Indochina. Nixon's half-hearted attempts to justify his activities are based on the exigencies of national security, by which he apparently means suppression of radical and liberal opposition to the war. When loyal CREEPs want to demonstrate that Nixon's activities were responses to illegal activities by his opponents, they point to Daniel Ellsberg and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Among the first fruits of Nixon's troubles were Congressional demands for an end to the bombing of Cambodia. Dramatically...
...Washington. Newspapers were no longer the safeguard of democracy, the cornerstone of a republican state. Or rather, they were now more than ever the safeguard of democracy--which was no longer acceptable to democracy's defenders. Nixon so feared people's knowing the truth about what was happening in Indochina simply because that would lead them to oppose the war, or worse, to oppose Nixon's reign at home. So it was important that no one know that the CIA had raised, trained and equipped a mercenary army in Laos, that no one know that the United States was bombing...
...Henry A. Kissinger '50, Nixon's national security adviser. Kissinger has advised and assisted in implementing a foreign policy that has meant four years of death and destruction to the people of Indochina. The murderous bombing of Cambodia, for which he and Nixon are alone directly responsible, continues to the present...
FORTUNATELY, the growing support for the NLF did not force radicals to adopt tactics markedly different from those of liberals who fought the war on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goal for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop: the radicals wanted the killing to stop...