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4. What choices do we have if we are to end the war ?
5. What are the prospects for peace ?
Let me begin by describing the situation I found when I was inaugurated
on January 20.
1. The war had been going on for five years.
2. Thirty-eight thousand Americans had been killed in action.
3. The training program for The South Vietnam was behind schedule.
ESE ARMED FORCES
4. Five-hundred-fifty FORTE thousand Americans were in Vietnam
with no plans to reduce the number.
5. No progress had been made at the negotiations in Paris
and the United States had not put forth a comprehensive
peace proposal.
6. The war was causing deep division at home as well as
criticism from many of our friends as well as our
enemies abroad.
In view of these circumstances there were some who urged I end the
war at once by ordering the immediate withdrawal of all American forces.
1. From a political standpoint this would have been a popular
and easy course to follow.
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