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Nixon's and Vietnam
* 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion ".
** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U. S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion.
Agnew was often characterized as Nixon's " hatchet man " when defending the administration on the Vietnam War.
However, during the subsequent Watergate scandal, Eastwood criticized Nixon's morality and later his handling of the Vietnam War, calling it " immoral ".
For his support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 ( and effective use of television commercials in California ) and his opposition to the War in Vietnam, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list, which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment and was also a huge supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Despite Nixon's growing political difficulties and an increasingly hostile working relationship with the legislature over Vietnam, Thiệu, and most of the Saigon leadership, remained optimistic about ongoing aid.
Laird publicly supported Nixon's Vietnam course, although Laird privately opposed the deception used to mask the Cambodian invasion from the American populace.
During his tenure as Defense Secretary, Laird did not share President Nixon's lingering timetable for withdrawal from Vietnam.
Nixon's silent majority referred mainly to the older generation ( those World War II veterans in all parts of the U. S .) but it also described many young people in the Midwest, West and in the South, many of whom eventually served in Vietnam.
In Nixon's own words ( Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam November 3, 1969 ):
* William Westmoreland ( 1914 – 2005 ), Commander of U. S. Forces in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, later Chief of Staff of the United States Army, pushed heavily for investigation of My Lai Massacre against President Nixon's wishes
On the eve of Nixon's resignation, Haldeman asked for a full pardon along with a full pardon of Vietnam War draft dodgers.
They conceived of a concept referred to as " the Beast ", which Wilkinson describes as " a headless monster that lurches through postwar history ," a metaphor for a system of dark forces that resulted in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and helped Nixon's rise to power and his fall from it as well.
The nation was at war in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon's war policies ( and foreign policy, more generally ) promised to be a major issue in the campaign.
In his confirmation hearing, Richardson expressed agreement with Nixon's policies on such issues as the adequacy of U. S. strategic forces, NATO and relationships with other allies, and Vietnam.
The First Lady of South Vietnam, Madame Thieu, said Pat Nixon's trip " intensified our morale ".
Following Richard Nixon's re-election, SANE advocated Congressional cut-off of funds for the Vietnam war.
In Nixon's own words ( Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam November 3, 1969 )
This had been planned since President Nixon's visit in 1972, but was delayed by the Watergate scandal and withdrawal from Vietnam.
She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing " daily hate Nixon articles.
North Vietnam had been disappointed by the results of its Nguyen Hue Offensive ( known in the West as the Easter Offensive ), and feared increased isolation if Nixon's efforts at détente significantly improved U. S relations with the chief communist powers, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, who were backing the North Vietnamese military effort.
* Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968 – 1972, by John Darrell Sherwood, The U. S. Navy and the Vietnam War series.
For example, in the 1970s the term was applied to Nixon's own handling of the Vietnam War and subsequently to the discrepancy between evidence of Richard Nixon's complicity in the Watergate break-in and his repeated claims of innocence.

Nixon's and policy
When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.
During the 1960s, South Korea was largely dependent on the United States to supply its armed forces, but after the elaboration of President Richard M. Nixon's policy of Vietnamization in the early 1970s, South Korea began to manufacture many of its own weapons.
Moro's widow later recounted Moro's meeting with U. S. President Nixon's advisor, Henry Kissinger, and an unidentified American intelligence official, who warned him not to pursue the strategy of bringing the Communist Party into his cabinet, telling him " You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration ... or you will pay dearly for it.
In this context, the policy meant dealing with other powerful nations in a practical manner rather than on the basis of political doctrine or ethics — for instance, Nixon's diplomacy with the People's Republic of China, despite the U. S .' s opposition to communism and the previous doctrine of containment.
US retreat from unconditional defense guarantees to lesser allies in general was driven as much by financial concerns as by policy re-examination of strategic and foreign policy objectives, reflected in Nixon's goals of detente and nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union, and establishment of formal diplomatic relations with Communist China.
In 1971, under Nixon's détente policy, the 7th Infantry Division was withdrawn, leaving the 2nd Infantry Division as the only US Army unit in Korea.
Brooke, who had supported Michigan Governor George W. Romney and then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bids for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination against Nixon's, often differed with President Richard Nixon on matters of social policy and civil rights.
" The quote served as the embodiment of one of Ehrlichman's main functions during his years in the White House, to seek and destroy Nixon's enemies at virtually any cost, a function that would overshadow his domestic efforts in a White House consumed with foreign policy.
However, his influence was drastically circumscribed throughout his tenure by Nixon's determination to handle critical foreign policy strategy and execution directly from the White House through his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.
" He had earned Nixon's ire the year before when he criticized the administration's " do-nothing " policy toward inflation.
After Nixon's election in 1968, Vietnamization became the policy of the United States.
Following Nixon's landslide defeat of McGovern, Meany said that the American people had " overwhelmingly repudiated neo-isolationism " in foreign policy.
While he jousted with Nixon over racial policies and his Supreme Court nominations, including his choice of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., of South Carolina, Scott supported much of Nixon's domestic agenda, applauded the president's conduct of foreign affairs, backed his Vietnam policy, praised his invasion of Cambodia, publicly proclaimed Nixon's innocence during the Watergate scandal, and endorsed President Gerald Ford's pardon of his predecessor.
The Callaghan government in the United Kingdom in the 1970s sought to reduce conflict over wages and prices through a " social contract " in which unions would accept smaller wage increases, and business would constrain price increases, imitating Nixon's policy in America.
Benign neglect was a policy proposed in the late 1960s by New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was at the time on Nixon's White House Staff as an urban affairs adviser.
He supported Nixon's Vietnam War escalation policy and remained loyal to him even during the height of the Watergate scandals, when Nixon was forced to resign as President.
The Madman theory was the centerpiece of Richard Nixon's foreign policy

Nixon's and well
Butterfield said he was reluctant to answer, but finally stated there was a new system in the White House that automatically recorded everything in the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room and others, as well as Nixon's private office in the Old Executive Office Building.
Author Roger Morris, a former colleague of Haig's on the National Security Council early in Nixon's first term, wrote that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he in effect pardoned Haig as well.
President Richard Nixon's 1971 imposition of wage and price controls, as well as his closing of the foreign gold window, were the final straws for Nolan and his group that had initiated a Committee the previous July Committee to Form a Libertarian Party and joined forces with a previous demonstration Libertarian Party project and non-partisan political efforts of the now International Society for Individual Liberty.
Thornley also claimed that " Kirstein " and Brooks had accurately predicted Richard M. Nixon's accession to the presidency six years before it happened, as well as anticipating the rise of the 1960s counterculture and the subsequent emergence of Charles Manson and what became his cult following.
Kendall was well acquainted with Richard Nixon and was photographed with him as Vice President and with Nikita Khrushchev during Nixon's Moscow trip known for the Kitchen Debate.
As a young girl she met the woman who would become Mrs. Emily Rose, wife of Milt Rose of the law firm Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, a firm which would later boast such partners as Richard M. Nixon, future Attorney General John Mitchell as well as Pat Buchanan who served as Nixon's assistant.
Jackson liked to book his own guests, and he became well known for talking to interesting news makers from all around the world, ranging from Richard Nixon's former counsel Charles Colson to economist Milton Friedman to Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan.
* The political intrigue within Communist Party leadership, including Mao's excessive use of propaganda and unrealistic demands leading to absurdities such as putting rice fields near railroad tracks to give the impression of fertility and health while the country suffered from massive famine, as well as Mao's excitement after President Richard Nixon's visit to China, around the time his health started to deteriorate.
Nicholas Nixon's subjects include schoolchildren and schools in and around Boston, people living along the Charles River near Boston and Cambridge as well as cities in the South, his family and himself, people in nursing homes, the blind, sick and dying people and the intimacy of couples.
It claims to have been the first station in the area to televise a live event ( President Richard Nixon's Savannah visit and ride in a parade on Skidaway Road ) as well as broadcasting in stereo.
* 18½ minutes of the infamous " Watergate tapes " were, allegedly, accidentally erased by Richard Nixon's secretary in a clerical error which may have very well changed the course of American history.
As well as discussing the ending of Gødland and the new Charlatan Ball and Nixon's Pals, he mentioned that Codeflesh would be returning.

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