1970's Government and Politics | 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...