Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey's speech bordered on political deceit, and drastically failed to live up to its promise as a departure on Vietnam policy...
...peace and then launched a Tet offensive? The answer is clear. The error was so elementary that Johnson could hardly have taken the peace initiative seriously to begin with. The tendency of American statesmen to judge themselves and their enemies by different standards is a continuing motif of the Vietnam...
...October 1966, according to Kraslow and Loory, Dean Rusk told Thant that Stevenson actually rejected the peace proposal on his own initiative, a contention which stunned Thant. Stevenson, dead by that time, had always worked indefatigably for peace in Vietnam...
HUBERT HUMPHREY'S nation-wide address Monday night showed very clearly that he knows he must break with President Johnson's Vietnam policies to capture the Presidency in November. It also showed that he is not yet willing to make the break. The speech was a masterpiece of deceptive political prose, and little more...
Humphrey claimed to be breaking new ground on the Vietnam issue by calling for a reevaluation of American commitments abroad and promising, if elected, to halt the bombing of the North. But on neither issue did the Vice-President genuinely dissociate himself from the stand of his predecessor...