Word: withdrawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace conference being held in Paris is a fraud. The president is pretending to move toward peace. The president has done nothing but shifted his slippery ground. We have made no progress except the withdrawl of Lyndon Johnson. Instead we have Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. There is no solution in sight. The War could be stopped if one hundred million Americans stood and said: let's stop it. More than half the American people think it is a mistake, but they don't have the initiative or energy to stand up and do something. Let's do something before...
Hanoi has offered its own set of preconditions for negotiation: it has asked the United States to agree in principle to the freedom of South Vietnam to choose its own government (which they feel must necessarily include the National Liberation Front), the eventual withdrawl of all foreign troops from Vietnam, and ultimately a unified and independent Vietnam. Those principles have in turn been rejected by the Johnson administration...
...series of peace offers which Washington has ignored by leaving their consideration to the government in Saigon. During the last week in July, the New York Times reported that the Viet Cong proposed a coalition government formed by direct elections, allowing the U.S. a six-month period of withdrawl from the country. The offer was rejected by Saigon and left unexplored by the United States, which clearly found the prospect of Communist victory in the elections unthinkable...