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* 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, " We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress.
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1967 and Vietnam
* 1967 – Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
* 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had " gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.
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* 1967 – Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the catches on fire in the worst U. S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch " Operation Deckhouse Five " in the Mekong River delta.
) He opposed the Vietnam War and, along with Bertrand Russell and others, organized a tribunal intended to expose U. S. war crimes, which became known as the Russell Tribunal in 1967.
Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.
GI Card Game, Watercolor by James Pollock, U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Artists Program | Vietnam Combat Artists Team IV ( CAT IV 1967 ).
According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to " new left " antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and " The Wise Men " conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
In 1966 and 1967 Sinatra traveled to Vietnam to perform for the troops.
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an Opposition to Vietnam War | anti-Vietnam War protest in Arlington County, Virginia | Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967
* 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
* 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
* 1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U. S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U. S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
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