Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon's latest troop "replacement" was first forecast as imminent, then held up, then linked with an obviously futile short halt of B-52 bombings in South Viet Nam. When the announcement finally came, it turned out to involve only a modest 35,000 men to be returned to the U.S. by Dec. 15. That was about 10,000 more than the reluctant Joint Chiefs of Staff had conceded would be acceptable, but far fewer than many war critics think possible. It will bring to 60,000 the number of troops pulled out since the Administration outlined its gradual...
...draft suspension seemed only slightly more convincing. Nixon said that because of the troop cutback no new quotas would be required of local draft boards in November and December, during which 50,000 men had been scheduled to be called. The 29,000 men already set for October induction will be spaced out instead over the final three months of this year. At the same time, Nixon announced that if Congress does not act promptly on proposals for draft reform that he submitted last May, he will institute most of them by executive decree (see box, opposite page...
...People. On the same day that Nixon appeared at the U.N., he was lashed by a familiar adversary. After brooding for nearly two months about the effect of his fatal Chappaquiddick Island accident on his credibility in raising a moral issue, Senator Edward Kennedy converted a routine dinner speech in Boston into a chance to resume-with even more sting than before-his attack on the Administration's war policy. "We have made only token troop withdrawals on the battlefield, an exercise in politics and improvisation," he charged. He called Viet Nam "difficult to justify, impossible...
Undoubtedly the majority of Americans still support the President in his search for an honorable way out of the morass in Viet Nam. But they also unmistakably want an early end to the killing. Nixon's dilemma continues to be how to fulfill those two, thus far irreconcilable demands...
Consider, then, this recent observation by Richard Nixon, a man not generally noted for his iconoclasms: "I know the job I have is supposed to be the most difficult job in the world. But it has not yet become for me that great, awesome burden that some have described it." His actions seem to support the words. The presidency has made a regular golfer of Nixon, who, as a private citizen, found golf "a waste of time." He has taken some evenings off this season to root for the Washington Senators, and will doubtless keep a number of his Sunday...