The End of the Vietnam War
"Vietnamization"
Speech
By: Richard M. Nixon
Date: November 3, 1969
Source: Richard M. Nixon, "Vietnamization." November 3, 1969, delivered in Washington, D.C. Public Papers of President Richard M. Nixon, courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library & Birthplace.
About the Author: Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994) was the nation's thirty-seventh president (served 1969–1974). Elected in 1968, in part on his promise to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1964–1975), Nixon enacted a policy of Vietnamization that indeed curtailed the American presence there.
"President Gerald R. Ford's Address at a Tulane University Convocation"
Speech
By: Gerald R. Ford
Date: April 23, 1975
Source: Gerald R. Ford, Presidential Speech on "Looking Past Vietnam," April 23, 1975, delivered at Tulane University. Public Papers of...
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