When President Nixon took office he changed the way the U.S. Forces approached the war, going from an offensive to a defensive approach. The protest back in the U.S. over combat deaths and civilian casualties caused Nixon to adopt a defensive strategy to hold down the number of KIAs.
Vietnam was not a war it was an action.
The Viet War draft lottery was started under the Nixon administration and commenced in Dec '69.
In Nixon's time, the cold war took precedence. Iraq was then, and would be under the Nixon's administration, basically ignored.
President Richard Nixon first used the term "War on Drugs" on June 17, 1971.
The Vietnam War had increased the federal deficit.
1960 (:1955 under the Eisenhower administration and ended in 1975 under the Ford administration.
Under Nixon we began the troop withdraw l, but the Fall of Siagon (1975), when we officially left completely, was under Ford.
No. US troops were in Vietnam from at least Eisenhower's administration, through Kennedy's, Johnson's, and Nixon's, and ended during Ford's administration 30 April 1975.
US personnel arrived under the Eisenhower administration in 1955. US personnel departed in April 1975 under the Ford administration.
Robert McNamara, (Kennedy and Johnson Administrations). Clark Clifford, (Johnson Administration). Melvin Laird, (Nixon Administration).
Nixon said that he would pull troops out of Vietnam. Under a plan called "peace with honor", Nixon planned to negotiate an end to the war.
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