Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half years later, President Nixon is finding that "arming" more difficult than he expected. Despite cautiously phased troop withdrawals, more than 300,000 Americans are still fighting in South Viet Nam, and in the U.S. some of the same incredulity that enveloped Lyndon Johnson is descending on Nixon. A recent Gallup poll found that 69% of the American people do not believe the Nixon Administration is telling the truth about Viet Nam; L.B.J.'s rating on that question at the same point in his first full term was 65%. Columnists are increasingly burdening Nixon with the old phrase "credibility...
...would suffer a blow from which it might not recover." The doubt remained: How far and how long would Nixon have the U.S. fight to keep Saigon out of Communist hands? Few Americans could be soothed when Nixon resurrected an ancient and unhappy Indochina metaphor, saying that his next troop withdrawal announcement would bring "some indication as to the end of the tunnel...
...Nixon is suffering a public relations loss, he is not nearly in Lyndon Johnson's dilemma of three years ago. Nixon is committed to a policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese...
...Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
Mission Accomplished. In mid-afternoon the first chopper, a Cobra gunship, swinging low to check the landing zone, came under heavy fire from the ground. It tried to roll out, but nosed into the jungle and exploded. The second, a Huey troop carrier, managed to land and evacuate 17 men. The third was hit by machine-gun fire and crashed. Two hours later, two more helicopters landed and rescued the downed chopper's crew and the last ARVN troops...