Word: parallelâ
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...passions to the degree it would have in the past. To be sure, critics noted that bombing North Viet Nam has never persuaded Hanoi to bargain before. Quite the contrary, Lyndon Johnson got the North Vietnamese to Paris in 1968 only by stopping the bombing north of the 20th parallel???and he got them to start talking only by stopping the bombing sorties entirely. Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rogers and Laird insisted that the Commander in Chief's constitutional duty to protect American troops justified the bombing raids. Conceivably, that rationale could cover tactical air-support missions...
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