Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily to face his associates and to overcome the partially subconscious, partially deliberate procrastination of his executive departments. The fact remains that on Cambodia, Nixon was right. And he was President...
...Operation Total Victory 42," as it was labeled, was launched against the Parrot's Beak during the night of April 28. American and South Vietnamese forces pushed forward into the Fishhook area at 7:30 a.m. Saigon time on May 1. The same day Nixon visited the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon and-on the spur of the moment-ordered what he had long been considering, an incursion into all other base areas. Twelve enemy base areas were attacked in the first three weeks...
...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 action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse...
...between 75,000 and 100,000 demonstrated on the Ellipse, south of the White House. The President saw himself as the firm rock in this rushing stream, but the turmoil had its effect. Pretending indifference, he was deeply wounded by the hatred of the protesters. In his ambivalence Nixon reached a point of exhaustion that caused his advisers deep concern...
What concerned Nixon most was the imminent Moscow summit. Haunted by the memory of Eisenhower's experience in 1960 [when Nikita Khrushchev abruptly canceled a summit because of U-2 "spy flights" by the U.S.], he was determined that any cancellation or postponement should come at his initiative. He was adamant that a cancellation by Moscow would be humiliating for him and politically disastrous...