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  1. Oct 27, 2024 · By the summer of 1974 Nixon had resigned in disgrace, Congress had cut military and economic aid to Vietnam by 30 percent, and the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia appeared close to defeat.

  2. Oct 27, 2024 · By the time South Vietnam joined the talks, Richard M. Nixon had been elected president. Nixon and his close adviser on foreign affairs, Henry A. Kissinger , recognized that the United States could not win a military victory in Vietnam but insisted that the war could be ended only by an “honourable” settlement that would afford South ...

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  3. Oct 19, 2024 · As a candidate for the presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon campaigned in part on a promise to end the war in Vietnam. This speech, delivered eleven months after his inauguration, provided the details of his plan to withdraw the United States from the conflict.

  4. 4 days ago · At the same time, however, Nixon resumed the bombing of North Vietnam (suspended by President Johnson in October 1968) and expanded the air and ground war to neighboring Cambodia and Laos.

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  5. Oct 19, 2024 · The War Powers Resolution was meant to force presidents to seek approval for war by requiring them to report activities leading to hostile action and then setting a clock for either congressional approval or the removal of the troops. Richard Nixon vetoed the Resolution on constitutional and policy grounds.

  6. Oct 23, 2024 · Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

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  8. Oct 10, 2024 · After nearly a decade of having Democrats residing in the Oval Office, former vice-president Richard M. Nixon’s promise of unifying the nation, restoring law and order, and ending the Vietnam War was enough to propel the one-time 1960 election loser to the White House.

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