Word: nixon
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Even when we were faced with four years of a Nixon presidency and no foreseeable end to the war, there remained a great deal of hope that Harvard would not repeat Columbia's experience...
Students were not the only ones struggling for change at Harvard. The Nixon administration, anxious to suppress student uprisings, passed a series of bills designed to stop the flow of aid to campuses with a history of radical activities. Harvard, with its recent history of political demonstration, was one target...
...June 1969, President Richard M. Nixon introduced "Vietnamization." The new policy called for the build-up of South Vietnamese forces and the withdrawal of American troops. That year, Nixon removed 60,000 American soldiers...
...went on, and student opinion concerning Nixon's handling of the war worsened. Nixon would not legitimize their demands for peace. In November 1969, Nixon gave a speech in which he argued that a "silent majority" of Americans supported his administration's strategy in ending the war. The speech only angered students further...
...strident and divisive police policy undertaken the previous fall [by the Nixon administration] had begun to reap a bitter crop," the authors write...