Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though a carefully phased redeployment should certainly be tried, I doubt that American opinion will any longer sit still for it. The announcement of the first troop withdrawals made clear that from now on America will regard the war as, at most, a rearguard action...
...position is, therefore, not that I favor a rapid withdrawal as a matter of policy but that I see the strong possibility of such a withdrawal as a matter of prediction-and I have come to the reluctant belief that the war is probably destined for a messy ending sooner than most Americans expect...
...Listen! After the tremendous amount of money, arms, help and good U.S. blood we've poured into that area, if the South Vietnamese were anywhere near united in wanting the war won, it would have been won twice over. If they don't want it won, then what the hell are we doing? Going out looking for a fight...
Thus it appeared to be a relief for Nixon to leave Washington and return to an activity that seems to refresh his spirit. He engaged in his first wholly partisan political stumping since he took office. Campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey. Nixon mentioned the war only once -and that was to tell an airport crowd in Morristown, N.J., to be sure to listen to his speech this week "on that particular matter...
...could not really escape the war. Several hundred demonstrators in the wealthy, conservative area awaited him in front of the Gouverneur Morris Inn. They held candles and chanted "Peace now." A few held up placards reading EFFETE SNOBS FOR PEACE...