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In a televised address to the nation from the White House, President Nixon announced that U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack North Vietnamese military bases in Cambodia along the …

President Nixon addressed the nation from the Oval Office on April 7, 1971, to announce progress in military operations that justified an accelerated withdrawal of American troops from Vietn…

President Nixon talked to the nation about the prospects for peace in Vietnam. He outlined a program of “Vietnamization” in which the U.S. military would gradually turn over operations to So…

President Nixon held a White House dinner to welcome prisoners of war home from Vietnam. He made a toast to the wives, mothers, and other female guests of the prisoners, calling them “the fi…

This is a portion of a televised address from March 29th, 1973, in which President Nixon spoke to the nation about the end of the Vietnam War. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records A…

Private White House Conversations with Richard Nixon and Alexander Haig. They talked about the casualty numbers from the Vietnam War and a leak of documents from the Pentagon.

A taped conversation between President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers in 1971 was played. The first excerpts from the “Pentagon Papers” had been published in The New Yor…

A taped conversation between President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger in 1971 was played. The first excerpts from the “Pentagon Papers” had been published in The…