Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addressed those two groups in his first comprehensive statement on the war since taking office. The speech may well prove a turning point in the tortuous quest for a settlement; it showed how far the U.S.-and the Administration-had moved toward a willingness to compromise. In a sense, Johnson's war had now formally become Nixon's war. But if the President's plan ultimately succeeds, the peace will also be Nixon's peace...
...effect at home was also encouraging to the Administration. Nixon realized that, sooner or later, the onus of his predecessor's war would have to become his burden. He is determined to avoid the loss of confidence that brought Lyndon Johnson down, and which, if duplicated now, would turn the U.S. bargaining position into dust. His tone of businesslike candor, as well as what he said, bought him at least some time...
...gradually and each time under new agreement, by creation of an "international supervisory body" that would verify troop pullbacks, arrange a final cease-fire and oversee national elections. Many of Nixon's items had been offered earlier at the negotiating table, or hinted at privately, even during the Johnson Administration. But never before had they been put together so clearly or publicly. So far as official U.S. policy is concerned, it broke ground in three important places: the proposals for mutual troop withdrawals, the willingness to bargain on both political and military questions, and the idea of an international...
Richard Nixon could agree to this if means existed to assure compliance. He changed the position set out after Lyndon Johnson's October, 1966 meeting with Asian leaders; the Manila communique ruled out allied withdrawals before "the level of violence subsides," and declared that those troops would be fully evacuated within six months after the North Vietnamese had left. Once both sides agreed, said Nixon, the majority of "non-South Vietnamese forces"-a delicate locution that takes in the North Vietnamese without pointing the propagandist's finger at them-would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam over...
Rivers' Role. The proposals were hardly original with the Nixon Administration. Lyndon Johnson put forward a similar plan, and several bills in Congress have the same general goals. The obstacle has been the House Armed Services Committee and its chairman, Mendel Rivers of South Carolina. Rivers fears that most draft-reform plans are the first step toward centralizing Selective Service and reducing the autonomy of the nation's 4,000 local draft boards. However, he now professes to have an open mind, and his conversion could be crucial. The reforms have a good chance of making it through...