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Transcript of Vietnam Day 3
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Political Results
• New Hampshire Primary• LBJ 49%• Senator Eugene
McCarthy 48.6% (Minn)• Soon Robert Kennedy
would enter the race for 1968.
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Home Front• Hawks – pro-war • Doves – anti-war• Norman Morrison• Quaker, father of 3 threw child
near the Pentagon• Then set himself on fire due to
the war• March 31, 1968-LBJ
announced that he would not run for a 2nd term & halt bombing
• Alice Herz• 82 year old woman that
burned herself alive-Detroit
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E. Nixon
• “I’m not going to end up like LBJ. I’m going to end that war fast.”
• Can we win? Henry Kissinger told Nixon that Vietnam could be won in 8-13 years!
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Peace w/Honor
• How do we end the war in Vietnam?• Peace with Honor• Withdraw troops,
negotiate, and when they do not accept bomb• Push USSR/China to help
end the war…• Creighton Abrams
replaces Westmoreland
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Nixon Doctrine
• 1. US shall keep all treaty commitments.• 2. US shall provide a
shield of nuclear power to a country that is an ally or vital to our security.• 3. We will give $$ and
military aid to others but they are responsible for their primary defense.
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Madman Theory
• Goal-Make the NV think that Nixon had lost his mind in order to end the war• Ex: Boxer Shorts
• Operation Duck Hook-called for the possibility of dropping nuclear weapons across NV by Nov. 1, 1969
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Operation Linebacker I April 10, 1972• LBJ-March 31, 1968• End all bombing of North
Vietnam
• Restart the Air War against the North• Destroy anything that
could be used as an offensive weapon• Dropped mines in
harbors of NV• Destroyed 4 USSR ships
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Operation Linebacker II
• Known as the Christmas bombings• December 1972• Round the clock
bombings of civilian targets like hospitals and orphanages
• Estimated 2000 Casualties on Day 1
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Vietnamization
• Plan by the Nixon administration to turn the fighting in Vietnam over to SV.• This lowered US military
effectiveness.
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Troop Withdrawal
• Nixon uses his Peace with Honor approach• Starts to withdraw
troops over a 14 pt. phased plan• 1968-560,000• 1972-60,000
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Domestic America
• Nixon guards the White House (January 1970) - 300 soldiers• “Draft Beer, not Kids”• “1,2,3,4, we don’t want
your ------- war”• “Hey, hey LBJ, how many
kids did you kill today?”
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Anti-War Protesting
• The war wasn’t ending like most Americans had hoped.• Bombing escalated• Involvement in Laos &
Cambodia increased• Congress is angered over
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution