Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Shortly before President Nixon's Nov. 3 address to the nation, a TIME-Louis Harris poll found the U.S. public gloomy about the prospect of victory yet determined to secure an honorable peace in Viet Nam, eager for an end to the war but willing to give the Administration...
HEEDING his appeal to "the great silent majority," the U.S. public has rallied behind both President Nixon and his Viet Nam policy. Although a sizable plurality still have serious reservations about the ultimate results of this policy, an overwhelming majority of 82% feel that Nixon is doing all he can...
A substantial majority approve the President's plan for U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. Support for immediate withdrawal of U.S. fighting men has dropped from 36% in October to 32% last month, while support for an accelerated troop pullout has fallen from 29% to 26%. Correspondingly, backing for the...
Though Nixon's appeal for support of his peace efforts has met with signal success, his attack on opponents of his war policy has been only moderately successful. A greater number than ever before now go along with the Administration claim that Viet Nam is essential to U.S. security...
Surprisingly, Americans are not particularly disturbed by the disclosure that U.S. troops apparently massacred several hundred South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. By a substantial 65% to 22%, the public shrugs off My Lai, reasoning that "incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war." It also rejects...