Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that he was at first skeptical of the deserters' story about units of manacled servicemen leaving for Vietnam. He began to believe the story after seeing the papers of one deserter who had been ordered to Vietnam under armed guard, Cox said...
PRIOR TO the last week of this campaign, no President could have asked for a greater consensus on the issue of Vietnam than that which Lyndon Johnson received from the Presidential candidates. Vietnam, the most important issue of the campaign, was in fact no issue...
...recent bombing halt has finally introduced alternatives for the issue of Vietnam. One of the most significant factors standing in the way of a compromise solution in Vietnam is the unwillingness of the Saigon government to recognize the National Liberation Front as a political force in South Vietnam. The Saigon generals' inflexibility on this point became obvious with their recent refusal to join the Paris talks if the NLF is represented. It is clear that a settlement of this war may have to be made which is not appealing to the special interests of South Vietnam's generals...
...Nixon's response to the halt was that Johnson, for political reasons, acted prematurely. The Republican candidate fears, according to his aides, that by acting without the consent of Saigon, Johnson has weakened America's position in Vietnam...
Nixon's position is consistent with his belief, as stated on an October 27 radio broadcast, that the establishment of a coalition government in South Vietnam would be a "thinly disguised surrender." This total commitment to the government in power was the same which prompted Nixon in 1954 to call for armed intervention to aid the French in Vietnam...