Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon set a June 30 cutoff date for the Cambodian incursion. Eventually, 32,000 U.S. ground troops were involved. But, Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the...
Nixon then and there decided upon the mining of North Vietnamese ports. He would speak to the nation on Monday evening, May 8. He would convene the National Security Council on Monday morning.
Le Duc Tho suggested that the U.S. and North Viet Nam sign an agreement settling the military questions between them-withdrawal, prisoners, ceasefire. The political problem-"that is the most thorny, the most difficult problem"-would not be allowed to prolong our negotiations. Le Duc Tho now dispensed with the...
So it happened that I appeared for the first time on national television at the very end of Nixon's first term. The White House public relations people,
From an inexhaustible national masochism there sprang the folklore that American decisions triggered the Cambodian nightmare, and the myth survives even today when the Vietnamese, without the excuse of American provocation but with barely a whimper of world protest, have finally fulfilled the ambition of conquering the whole of Indochina...