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“I am taking the unprecedented step of disclosing to you some of our other initiatives for peace, initiatives we undertook privately and secretly…None of these initiatives have to date produced results.”
President Nixon 1969
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President Richard M. Nixon Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower, losing candidate in the 1960 election, he defeated Hubert Humphrey to become the nation’s 37th President. He initiated the “Vietnamization” of the war, gradually turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese as American troops engaged in a phased withdrawal from Vietnam. A “peace with honor” was achieved, and America’s prisoners of war were repatriated, during his watch. He was forced to resign from office in 1974, his Presidency undone by the Watergate scandal.
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