Rusk urged partial bombing halt to begin Indochina wind-down
Washington reports that former Secretary of State Dean Rusk proposed ending bombing over most of North Vietnam to President Johnson on March 4, 1968. The authors Kalb and Abel say Rusk weighed peace talks if bombing ceased beyond the DMZ. Rusk, now a law professor, confirmed the core detail from Athens, Georgia.
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UPI
Dean Rusk
Lyndon B. Johnson
Indochina
Rusk
Vietnam
Johnson
Pentagon
CBS
Marvin Kalb
Elie Abel
NBC Corre
Spondent Burt
Columbia University School of Journalism
U.S
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
University of Georgia
Athens
Rusk recalls 1968 bombing halt proposal to Johnson
Rusk described to reporters a confidential 1968 plan he urged President Johnson to test a partial bombing pause to entice negotiations. By month’s end the idea had evolved into an actual proposal.
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Johnson
Walter Cronkite
Rusk
Nixon open to deal for peace in Vietnam
James MacGregor Burns reports from Life magazine that President Nixon might concede large parts of South Vietnam to Hanoi if it guarantees a future peace and Saigon’s guarded security. Burns notes strategic options amid Vietnamization and possible escalation if South Vietnam falters.
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New York
UPI
Nixon
South Vietnam
Hanoi
White House
Laos
James MacGregor Burns
Life Magazine
Life presses Nixon for a fixed Indochina withdrawal date
Life magazine urges President Nixon to set a final date next month for total U S forces withdrawal from Indochina. It warns that at current pace 50 000 to 100 000 troops could remain in Vietnam in a noncombat role by spring 1972 and questions the residual force and continued air power use. Athens census places 1970 Greek population at 8 736 367 up 4.1 percent from 1960 with about 500 000 emigrants uncounted.
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New York
UPI
Life Magazine
Nixon
U.S
Indochina
Vietnam
Life
Athens
Church Cooper near accord on end war bill
Sens. Frank Church and John Sherman Cooper said they are nearing a new amendment, to be introduced later this year, committing the United States to total withdrawal from Southeast Asia. The measure would be precise, law binding, and aimed at preventing a lingering U.S. force or base on the mainland, with potential input from Mondale proposals and White House views.
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Washington
UPI
Frank Church
Didaho
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Cooper Church II
South East Asia
Nixon
Cooper
Church
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
Thailand
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
North Vietnam
White House
Vietnam
Senate
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Speedier withdrawals urged by Mansfield
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged drastic action to withdraw U.S. troops from Indochina by end of 1971. He favored reducing or halting funds, criticized residual forces, and called for a Southeast Asia withdrawal. He noted political shifts, citing Muskie, McGovern, Hughes, Humphrey, and Humphrey as a factor. Mansfield also planned a Europe troop-reduction resolution.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
U.S
Indochina
Mansfield
Nixon
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Nbc-Tv
Edmund Muskie
Maine
George McGovern
Harold Hughes
Hubert Humphrey
Congress
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