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2. 6 years Quident sent as 20,000 advisorms f the
3.
Five years ago, President Johnson sent American
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combat forces to South Vietnam.
T.
We did not then or now seek bases in South Vietnam
or the conquest of North Vietnam.
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5 Our limited aim then and now was to provide for the
people of South Vietnam the right to choose their own
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government without any outside interference.
Many believe that President Johnson's decision five years ago to
send American combat forces to South Vietnam was wrong. Many
others - I among them - have been strongly critical of the way the
war has been conducted.
But the question is -- now that we are in the war what is the best
way to end it?
1. In January I could only conclude that the immediate
withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam and the
acceptance of American defeat implicit in that decision
would be a disaster not only for South Vietnam but
for the United States and for the cause of peace such
a withdrawal was supposed to serve.
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