Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay "What Withdrawal Would Really Mean" [Oct. 24], quotes me twice in a context which suggests that I favor a precipitate withdrawal from Viet Nam. That is quite incorrect...
Ever since the middle of 1964 I have urged that we should cut our losses by extricating ourselves from the Viet Nam conflict under carefully planned conditions that would result in minimum damage to our interests and authority around the world. If that is what the Nixon Administration is at long last seeking to achieve, the effort has my sympathy...
...seems very likely that in the months ahead the logic of our internal predicament will impel an accelerating withdrawal from Viet Nam that may well at some point put unbearable strains on the present fragile government in Saigon. This remains, as it has long been, the most vulnerable center of potential breakage-and we should be under no illusions that in a pervasive climate of sauve qui pent a successor government could be deterred from making a rapid deal with the North very largely on the North's own terms...
...dangerous nonsense for us to equate our extravagant declarations regarding Viet Nam with our security commitments toward either Berlin or Japan. In Viet Nam our national interest is marginal; in the others, fundamental. Our friends and allies well understand this distinction; they will identify the two only if they think we are doing...
...there were no proposed drafts, no stacks of memos, no turgid position papers to help. "He's writing it himself-with his pen on his little yellow pad," confided Communications Director Herb Klein. Although he may not have wanted it that way, President Nixon's speech on Viet Nam this week had shaped up as one of the most important of his Administration to date...