Word: midways
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...puts it both publicly and privately, is turning inward, and he feels that his mission in the Presidency is to keep the U.S. great. In truth Nixon really viewed his two speeches as a-one-two punch, a single declaration. The finale of this scenario was to come at Midway...
...President moved across the globe toward Asia to grapple directly with South Viet Nam. Nixon flew to Midway Island for his first meeting as President with Nguyen Van Thieu, the South Vietnamese chief of state...
...Front has thus far refused to countenance any suggestion of a political settlement in South Viet Nam that would perpetuate Thieu's "puppet regime." Yet the U.S. might damage Saigon's hard-won political stability if it were to jettison Thieu at this stage. In fact, the Midway meeting was designed to bolster Thieu's position with tributes to South Vietnamese courage and Washington-Saigon solidarity...
...Midway, President Nixon was in mid-passage between a war he had inherited and a war that would soon become his own liability if he could not move effectively toward ending it. In any case, the White House now believes that a new phase of serious negotiation with Hanoi promises to begin soon in Paris. Both directly in public and elliptically in private, the North Vietnamese are not simply contenting themselves with scoring propaganda points but are starting to go further. They are pressing for details of some of Nixon's eight points...
...Great Nation. Some observers in Saigon, in fact, compared the session with the Battle of Midway, which, 27 years ago this week, turned the tide in the Pacific war. If the comparison was vastly exaggerated, it did express Saigon's fear that the Nixon Administration might be willing to make concessions in Paris that would destroy the Thieu regime. "Our government obviously wants to know the intentions of the United States," said Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's chief negotiator in Paris, who then pointedly recalled Nixon's words that "a great nation cannot renege on its pledges...