Most accounts of the collapse of Richard Nixon’s presidency ... While Watergate was the proximate cause of Nixon’s spectacular fall, it was the Vietnam War, beginning four years before the ...

Steve Wenzel will cover the history of the Vietnam War and how it dominated and influenced the 1968 presidential election.

Nixon also campaigned as the law-and-order candidate, promising to end the war in Vietnam and unrest at home. Challenges: Upon election, Richard M. Nixon sought to end the Vietnam War. However, he ...

Nixon announced a plan to bring back the first of the 538,700 troops in June 1969. By 1970, the number of US troops in Vietnam had dropped to 334,600. At the same time, the ARVN’s forces grew ...

Whether history repeats, rhymes or reverts, despite two personalities that could not be more opposite, consider how similar ...

Richard Nixon was born ... but that’s for the year 2000.” Nixon understood that his own views would eventually be outdated. He expanded the Vietnam war into Cambodia, which resulted in the ...

Gayle Anderson previewed the newly installed Vietnam Veterans Monument at the Richard ... Nixon Foundation formed a committee of Vietnam Veterans, a Gold Star Family member from the Vietnam War ...

“Peace with honor” was a phrase President Richard Nixon emphasized in an announcement to end the United States’ direct involvement with the war in Vietnam. Throughout the 1968 presidential ...

U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, and the last of the prisoners of war held by North Vietnam returned home. In ...

Whether history repeats, rhymes or reverts, despite two personalities that could not be more opposite, consider how similar President ... Nixon, faced with ending the Vietnam War, saw the Soviet ...