Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1970, the war finally seemed to be winding down. Congress had repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which had permitted the president to use military force in Vietnam for "police action...
Nixon was continuing the Vietnamization process. In April of 1970, he announced that another 150,000 American troops would be sent to Vietnam by the end of the year...
Before this, the administration had found great success in "blunting the edge of Vietnam protest," Rather and Gates write...
When leaving a Pentagon briefing, Nixon reportedly made a passing comment about "these bums...blowing up the campuses." He unfavorably contrasted student activists with the soldiers serving in Vietnam who "stand tall, and they're proud...
...confusion erupted on campus and troops fired on student protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman describes the shootings in his book Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam...