Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months it has been clear that Richard Nixon's prime goal is to get American forces out of Viet Nam. The only questions have been when and how he would withdraw the more than 535,000 Americans and what Communist concessions he might get in return. When former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford put forth his own timetable last month, the President reacted snappishly, declaring that the Administration hoped to move even faster. Many assumed that Nixon spoke out of pique or misjudgment. From every indication last week, however, Nixon not only chose his words deliberately-but meant every...
...enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been one of Washington's stated criteria for reducing U.S. forces, Rogers' remarks might be the prelude to an announcement of a second American troop cutback...
There was, to be sure, an element of the convert's zeal on the part of the proponents of last week's resolution, several of whom have admitted that they were negligent in not objecting much earlier to Viet Nam policy. Its chief sponsor, in fact, was J. William Fulbright, who five years ago also sponsored the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -the measure that the Johnson Administration later claimed was the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war. In part at least, last week's National Commitments resolution is the doves' belated atonement for the Tonkin...
...issue will not be settled by last week's resolution or by a dozen like it, and the debate promises to continue long after peace comes in Viet Nam. As a result of Viet Nam, many in Congress are distrustful of any President's wisdom and determined to deny him even the military means, let alone the authority, to intervene unilaterally. One thing is certain: Richard Nixon will be watched more closely by Congress than have been any of his predecessors of the past few decades...
Haunted by the image of his own past superimposed on the present-Old Left traced over New Left, Spain over Viet Nam-Spender has lately toured the world as if it were a single troubled campus. During the student occupation in April 1968, he made the scene at Columbia. In fact he boosted himself through a window into President Kirk's office, though he declined the insurgents' invitation to smoke a presidential cigar (a "sign that I was not taking their side"). A month later, Spender was roaming Paris, listening to another Polonius of the Old Left, Jean...