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...omens of settlement gathered too. The U.S. restricted its bombing of North Viet Nam to targets below the 20th parallel. South Vietnamese flags were selling at a brisk pace in Saigon, as Vietnamese prepared to show their colors?and protect themselves ?in the event of a truce. In Paris, the French government was said to be making quiet preparations to host a new Geneva-style "guarantee conference" of five or six nations that would oversee an orderly cessation of hostilities throughout the scarred Indochina landscape. Inevitably, the accounting would begin of the cost of a decade...
...WHEN the truce came, no one would call it "V-V Day." No crowds would jig through Times Square yelling their relief and pride, exuberantly kissing strangers. Such celebrations, the victory dances of other wars, were in a sense ceremonies of innocence. When the end for Americans came in Viet Nam, the longest and strangest of U.S. wars, innocence would have little to do with it. Something more complex would be occurring in the national psyche: relief, surely, but also bewilderment and chagrin, perhaps a lingering sense of betrayal on both sides of the long domestic debate that would...
March 31, 1968. President Johnson announces retirement at end of term, orders cessation of bombing and appeals for truce talks...
July 1953. Korean armistice signed. Guerrilla war intensifies in northern Viet Nam. French, seeking to carry war to Viet Minh territory, occupy outpost at Dien Bien Phu in November. Ho offers to negotiate truce...
...duty of "opinion leaders" to raise questions, doubts and warnings. Whatever the ultimate historical verdict on the bombing and mining, a free press cannot be a cheering section or a propaganda arm of the Government-even if a longed-for settlement in Viet Nam might bring about a truce as well between Nixon and the reporters who, after all, are paid to maintain a critical...