Word: presidental
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SOUTH VIET NAM'S President Nguyen Van Thieu has never been a demonstrative sort, but last week he was clearly elated by President Nixon's address about the war. "It is the greatest and most brilliant speech I have ever known a United States President to make," said...
While Thieu and his colleagues congratulated themselves, U.S. military men in Saigon matched up their on-the-spot view of the war with Nixon's assessment, which had filtered through the layers of State Department and White House bureaucracy. The consensus was that the President was generally close to...
Hopeful Assumptions. Nixon said that prospects for turning the burden of ground combat over to the South Vietnamese looked "more optimistic now" than they did even last summer when Washington was talking in terms of a pullout by the end of 1972. After Nixon's speech, South Viet Nam...
President Nixon pointed to the current low U.S. casualty rate as a sign that the war was winding down. In Saigon last week, the U.S. command reported that October's total of 409 battle deaths was the lowest monthly toll since 1966. Nixon stressed that a low "level of...
Another inhibiting factor is that Thieu is becoming a more effective President. In his elation over Nixon's speech, Thieu last week journeyed into the countryside for the second time in five days. In Lam Dong province, north of Saigon, he made a presentation of land titles to two...