Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

252 e lusive v ictories the U.S. Senate, but not with determined revolutionaries.  Th e only way to persuade such a foe to ne ...

s taying the c ourse 253 Finally, having promised “peace,” Nixon would fi nd it diffi cult to sell full-scale mobilization to a ...

254 e lusive v ictories proclaimed as the “Nixon Doctrine.” Th is held that countries would be expected to provide the troops to ...

s taying the c ourse 255 Taking the Gloves Off Between January 1969 and January 1973, when a peace agreement was fi nally signed ...

256 e lusive v ictories especially the expanded paramilitary local units (Regional Forces/ Popular Forces), and the United State ...

s taying the c ourse 257 steadfastness extended all the way up the South Vietnamese chain of command to the president: in the fa ...

258 e lusive v ictories impress upon Hanoi that he would not be bound by the previous administration’s self-imposed restrictions ...

s taying the c ourse 259 behalf of what he famously termed “the silent majority” of Americans who wanted to see the war conclude ...

260 e lusive v ictories deeper into Cambodia.  Th is marked the fi rst step into the heart of the nation for the Cambodian co ...

s taying the c ourse 261 including military options Johnson had rejected—air raids on transpor- tation lines up to the Chinese b ...

262 e lusive v ictories Peace Building amid an Unpopular War To achieve the objective he established in Vietnam, Nixon needed to ...

s taying the c ourse 263 support. Even after the American withdrawal was complete, then, South Vietnam would need not just munit ...

264 e lusive v ictories Th ey began to taste success on December 29, 1970, when they passed the aforementioned Cooper-Church ban ...

s taying the c ourse 265 Wasted Talk Nixon’s quest to end the war “with honor” led him on a diplomatic path that extended the wa ...

266 e lusive v ictories Kissinger found Th o no more fl exible when parallel private talks com- menced in January 1970. Moreover ...

s taying the c ourse 267 tried to put the best face possible on the shift, insisting no negotiations could remove the NVA troops ...

268 e lusive v ictories conditions the Americans came to recognize as essential components of any deal Hanoi would accept. His w ...

s taying the c ourse 269 via intermediaries and in letters directly to Thieu in the preceding weeks, Nixon had vowed to continue ...

270 e lusive v ictories in the South, also violating the agreement terms that permitted no more than replacement of troops and w ...

s taying the c ourse 271 administration for a supplemental appropriation to send additional military assistance to Saigon. City ...