Peace Efforts In Vietnam

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Discusses the problem of getting the U.S. out of Vietnam in an acceptable way. Large scale involvement of American combat troops during the war. Problems of negotiations. Conditions that make for successful negotiations. Political dynamics in South Vietnam. Early American negotiating proposals. U.S. policy makers concept of "withdrawal with honor," and an acceptable outcome.

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"More than a quarter-century after the end of American military involvement in Vietnam, the Vietnam War remains a great unsettled question in American public life. The cultural division in American politics, as displayed in the close 2000 election, probably correlates strongly to opinions about the American experience in Vietnam, which likewise hangs over American foreign policy, particularly when any commitment of forces is involved. Vietnam still matters.
The discussion below is focused on the problem of getting the United States out of Vietnam in an acceptable way, once American combat forces were involved there on a large scale, not..."

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