Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, perhaps, it is just those regions of the country, the South, the Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, which have given Johnson his strongest support on Vietnam that stand to lose the most. Ten years from now the Montana rancher (who's voting for Wallace because he wants Hanoi H-bombed) will watch his daughter die in child-birth as he is flying her, in his little Cessna, to the hospital in Butte, several hundred miles away. In his grief, he will rail because there was no doctor closer, but he'll probably never make the connection...
...American G.I.'s, on leave from their army base in New York, will speak against the war in Vietnam at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Emerson...
...PRESIDENT'S decision to stop the bombing of North Vietnam seems strangely anti-climactic. The end of the bombing is undoubtedly a step toward peace. But it is sadly overshadowed by other considerations: the domestic legacy of our immoral adventure in South Vietnam, and the remaining obstacles to terminating...
...there were any justice to our intervention in Vietnam, these two incidents might be called victories. But the aggressive character of our intervention and our tremendous military superiority make them appear more extortions than victories...
...that the bombing halt was not final. If the North Vietnamese should abuse the Demilitarized Zone, attack cities or provincial capitals, or refuse to enter into serious discussion about ending the war, the United States could resume bombing. Hanoi must also agree to let the elected government of South Vietnam join in the negotiations...