Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon called the pullout "another orderly step in our plan for peace in Vietnam." He said that progress in training the South Vietnamese army contributed to his decision...
...President told a nationally broadcast and televised White House news conference he will have a new troop withdrawal announcement in two or three weeks, certainly by the end of December. He added the size of the pullout has not been determined...
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South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky offered an off-the-cuff guess that all U.S. ground-combat troops could be withdrawn by the end of 1970 and the remaining support units, such as artillery batteries and helicopter crews...
...final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed to make the American people so weary of the war that they will demand an immediate pullout...
Thirty-six percent of the public and 32% of the leaders favored immediate, total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. Of several hypothetical situations that might justify an immediate U.S. pullout, only a seizure of the Vietnamese government by hard-line generals determined to fight indefinitely found a majority willing to back an instant U.S. withdrawal...