RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 467 reelection campaign and Westmoreland knew this, so with few options and little imaginat ...

468 ChaPter^9 Since 1968, the Tet Offensive has become a myth with scholars and politi- cians claiming—as Westmoreland and Johns ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 469 the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Earle Wheeler, to Saigon at the end of the month. Wheeler ar ...

470 ChaPter^9 dust to settle in Vietnam for a thorough analysis of the situation. With a bar- rage of candid and often pessimist ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 471 motivate Johnson’s withdrawal from the race. In mid-March, European nations, alarmed by ...

472 ChaPter^9 Nixon and his top advisor, Henry Kissinger, began to reduce the number of American soldiers in Vietnam but built u ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 473 Only by dropping 48,000 tons of bombs did the United States prevent an even more horrif ...

474 ChaPter^9 Sihanouk, thereby giving it credibility. Building on the hatred of the U.S. and Lon Nol, the Khmer Rouge grew and ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 475 ing in for the kill. In the meantime, Nixon rallied. He and Kissinger practiced the “ma ...

476 ChaPter^9 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho had agreed. Nixon, by this time, was guaranteed to win the election so he took a hard lin ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 477 stood, would mean that the Communists would eventually take over all of Vietnam. Kissin ...

478 ChaPter^9 through the gates, and liberated, or conquered, Saigon. They flew the flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Govern ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 479 all corners of American life, including the military. Perhaps the most important antiwa ...

480 ChaPter^9 the similarities between social conditions in Vietnam and the situation in American being protested by Martin Luth ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 481 Soldier’s opposition to the war could be subtle, such as listening to antiwar music at ...

482 ChaPter^9 prisoners, napalm dropped on villages, women being raped, women and chil- dren being massacred... bodies shoved ou ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 483 Kerry’s words, though powerful, were ultimately empty, for in Paris Kissinger was playi ...

484 ChaPter^9 to induction centers. Tragically, in early 1965, an 82-year old Holocaust sur- vivor in Detroit, Alice Herz, immol ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 485 The heart of the movement, however, was still in the streets. Demonstrations in most ma ...

486 ChaPter^9 war, economically, without too much success but I think in due course the chickens will come home to roost.” Afric ...