Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon let drop several clues that he has such steps in mind. In the television speech, he said that things were looking better in Viet Nam than they had in June. That was when he declared that he hoped to beat a timetable proposed by ex-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, who called for withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops by the end of next year. Privately, Nixon told a group of Republican Congressmen last week that nearly all U.S. troops will probably be out of combat before the November 1970 elections. Whether or not he can bring about that result...
...Washington headquarters of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, which is helping to sponsor the renewed demonstrations this week, the response to Nixon's speech was: "We told you so." Said John C. Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary and a protest leader: "President Nixon gave us nothing...
...AGNEW TOO read a telegram that arrived in the White House last week after the President's Viet Nam speech. In earlier Administrations it might have seemed odd to tack on the name of the Vice President of the United States, who is traditionally almost an official non-person in Washington. Spiro Theodore Agnew, however, is turning the vice-presidency into something like an oratorical happening, raising the No. 2 office to a level of visibility and controversy unknown since the days of, well, Richard Nixon...
Agnew witnesses the decision-making in such areas as Viet Nam or the ABM, but he does not really participate. Asked to name a major contribution the Vice President has made to policy, a White House adviser modified Ike's reply regarding Nixon: "If you give me ten minutes, I might think of something." Eisenhower said that he would need a week, and Agnew could thus be considered a considerable improvement. Nonetheless, the Vice President has complained to friends that he feels like an errand boy. Says one of his aides: "He misses the authority of a top executive. When...
Both Holton and Battle are progressives in Virginia terms. They talked a moderate law-and-order line but sounded sympathetic toward the black's problems. They want the U.S. out of Viet Nam but on "honorable" terms. Those, however, were secondary issues compared with the food-tax dispute-Holton favored offsetting the regressive state levy with a rebate-and the Republicans' argument that it was time to make Virginia a two-party state...