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...Wisconsin from the earliest demonstrations in 1963 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Using rare, archival film obtained from the State Historical Society and authentic US Army combat footage, Silber and Brown carefully parallel the growth of the anti-war movement with the escalation of American involvement in Viet Nam, from the sparsely attended demonstrations against the February, 1964 bombings of North Viet Nam to the 1967 protests against Dow Chemical Co. and the use of napalm and finally to the massive demonstrations in the spring, 1972, to bring the troops home...
...night Nixon announced the Viet Nam peace agreement, Kissinger pondered what lay ahead...
Otherwise moderation may abort the hopeful prospects by raising last-minute doubts as to whether the cost of settlement need be paid. Stopping offensive military actions in Korea in 1951 when cease-fire talks started almost surely prolonged the talks; I would make the same argument about the Viet Nam bombing halt in 1968, though I held a different view at the time...
Without a doubt the two most unfortunate meetings Nixon had with any foreign leader were his conversations in the Oval Office on Nov. 4 and 5 with Indira Gandhi. Mrs. Gandhi began by expressing admiration for Nixon's handling of Viet Nam and the China initiative, in the manner of a professor praising a slightly backward student. Her praise lost some of its luster when she smugly expressed satisfaction that with China Nixon had consummated what India had recommended for the past decade...
...Europeans complained about a "dollar gap." Greenbacks were the only currency that was accepted everywhere, though there were not enough of them around to finance world trade and development. But the dollar gap has since become a dollar glut. Due to heavy foreign spending, first to pay for the Viet Nam War, more recently for oil imports, the U.S. has exported enough dollars in the past decade to boost the reserves held by foreign central banks from $24 billion to $300 billion. Private international banks hold another $600 billion in Eurodollars, which are dollars loaned abroad...