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Nixon began as soon as he took office in '69. Finished most of the ground troops by '72, but left the air power until '73. But Nixon himself was removed from office in '73/'74 (Watergate), so Ford had to deal with any remaining US Military Forces in Vietnam. Ford had to deal with the fall of Saigon in April 1975.

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Almost immediately after taking office in 1969, President Nixon ordered the Chiefs of Staff to draw up a withdrawal plan. In the same year the first US troops started to leave Vietnam as part of the so-called "Vietnamization policy" for the Vietnam War.

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He commenced reduction operations in 1969.

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Kennedy was the first president to send troops to Vietnam (others before him sent advisors, but not troops), Johnson escalated the number of troops... Nixon got us out of Vietnam.

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When election time came around and Nixon was looking to be re-elected as President.

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1976

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