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(2) Still more ominous our defeat in South Vietnam
would without question promote recklessness
in the councils of those great powers who have not
yet abandoned their goals of world conquest.
For these reasons I rejected the recommendation that I
should end the war by immediately withdrawing all our forces
and accepting an American defeat.
adopt
I chose instead to change our policy in Vietnam from a war policy.
to a peace policy. adopt policy
on the negotiating front and on the totallo front
in order so that we could unovequidb
1. In order to end a war fought on many fronts,
I
initiated
a pursuit for a peace on many fronts.
(1) In a television speech on May 14, in a speech
before the United Nations, and on a number of
other occasions I set forth our peace proposals in
great detail.
of a justFlarting peacer
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