Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though President Eisenhower, rejecting his vice president's advice, decided not to give the resurgent French a couple of nuclear bombs, shortly before the fall of Dien Bien Phu, it was the United States that encouraged Ngo Dinh Diem to cancel the nation wide elections to reunite a divided Vietnam that had been called for in the Geneva agreement of 1954. After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave...
...means--the rulers of the United States were not among them. Henry A. Kissinger '50 never got over his disappointment at his loss of authority to try to bomb the Vietnamese into submission. In April 1973, Time magazine reports. Richard Nixon gave orders to resume the bombing of North Vietnam, rescinding them when he learned that John W. Dean III had been talking to the Watergate prosecutors. Gerald Ford continued to plead for more military aid to the Saigon government that had signed a peace agreement providing for civil and political rights for all Vietnamese, then continued to hold tens...
...gratuitous criminality of inventing new methods of destruction for a cause whose hopelessness was clear, as well as to the NLF's triumph over everything the United States had hurled against it--was to call for forgetfulness, for a moratorium on recriminations, for an end to the story of Vietnam Kissinger simply said that the United States should not help to rebuild North Vietnam--a country he did as much as anyone to destroy--and went on to the next subject...
...people to remember Vietnam is hardly to call for unwarranted "recriminations," as administration spokesmen have been suggesting in the last few days. If, as they seem to believe, American involvement in Vietnam was an accident, a mistake that unfortunately killed hundreds of thousands of people without achieving a discernible political effect-except, perhaps, for promoting the victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia-then it is reasonable to continue to ask how a democratic, rational system of government could permit such an accident and such a mistake. And if American involvement in Vietnam was not simply an "accident...
...meantime, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, faced with governing a country devastated by two decades of war, has asked for help from anyone who will offer it--especially food, medicines, and cloth. The United States should respond to the PRG's call. It is not a matter of discharging America's debt to Vietnam--too many Vietnamese, like many of the Americans sent to stop their revolution, are beyond the reach of debtors and creditors alike. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that...