Word: troops
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Hanoi knows that the war issue felled Lyndon Johnson. It heard Richard Nixon express the hope that he could beat Clark Clifford's withdrawal timetable, which called for all U.S. ground combat troops to be out of Viet Nam by the end of 1970. Hanoi watched as Nixon began to reduce manpower in South Viet Nam. And it heard Senator George Aiken, senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, predict that Nixon will announce "another troop withdrawal for Christmas, enough to make 100,000 for this year...
Wheeler arrived Saturday and spent the weekend attending briefings on the enemy's level of activity and on military assistance to the South Vietnamese armed forces. Official sources said he was studying the possibility of further U. S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam...
...reappearance of dissent in the form of demands for U.S. troop withdrawals, whether immediate or on a specific timetable, reflects the war-weariness of a part of the U.S. public. In a sense that Nixon did not quite state, it does represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted...
...often enough for conservative causes. Scott and Griffin supported the President on the ABM. Last year Griffin led the Senate fight against Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Both Senators have generally subscribed to the President's Viet Nam policies, although Scott has been anxious for accelerated troop withdrawals. Both Scott and Griffin are liberal on civil rights. Last June, Scott attacked the Administration's positions on voting rights and school desegregation guidelines. During the 90th Congress, he voted less than half the time with the conservative Senate coalition. Scott's Republicanism is ecumenical. "There...
David Riesman 31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said last night he would oppose the resolution because it called for action to end the war without educating people to the reasons for the immediate troop withdrawal. He urged the Faculty to delay consideration of the proposal until after the October 15th Moratorium...