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...secretary of the lower house of the National Assembly, and therefore it should encourage greater political unity in South Viet Nam. While Thieu faces new opposition from a neutralist group of intellectuals formed two weeks ago, he nonetheless demonstrated refreshing flexibility on several sticky points when he returned from Midway...
Even before he won the Republican nomination for President in 1968, Richard Nixon proposed "a fuller enlistment of our Vietnamese allies in their own defense." TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey traces the evolution of the Nixon Administration's efforts to carry out that aim through the Midway meeting...
...Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker worked with the Thieu government; two days before the Midway meeting, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger flew to the summer White House in San Clemente, Calif., with a draft of the troop-reduction statement...
When Nixon and Thieu met in the modest house of the U.S. base commander at Midway, Nixon moved quickly to the troop question. "We have claimed for years that we were getting stronger," Thieu replied. "If it is so, we have to be willing to see some Americans leave." Thieu agreed that the announcement might help the Paris negotiations. Said Nixon: "We do not want to break the umbilical cord to your people." The troop replacement would not, said Thieu...
President Nixon gained no congressional plaudits on issues other than the war when he returned from Midway. Instead, he had to turn at once to Capitol Hill, where a series of smoldering debates were breaking into the open. Democratic liberals were arrayed in opposition to his order of national priorities. Republicans felt leaderless, and the Administration itself had allowed its lines of communication with the Hill to fall into disrepair. Items...