Richard M. Nixon's Argument Against The Vietnam War

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Richard M. Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States in 1968. Once he came into office, his goal was to change the attitudes of the people towards the Vietnam war after the results of the anti-war movement(Pg. 99-100). When people protested about the war, the outcome was police brutality towards all of the protesters who were against the war and the military draft. This took place outside of the Democratic National Convention in 1968. This also resulted in death of four students who attended Kent State University, which happened in 1970. However, Richard M. Nixon still believed that a “silent majority” of Americans still supported the war.
Nixon came up with a policy of Vietnamization(pg.204). Which was a policy of the US to withdrawal American troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. Although he did keep this promise, he expanded the scope of the war by secretly authorizing illegal military actions in Viet …show more content…
emissary, and the North Vietnamese representative in 1972, leading Nixon to engage in diplomatic maneuvering with China and USSR, pressuring North Vietnamese into settlement by increasing the bombing (pg.206). Later in March of 1973, the last U.S. military group left Vietnam. The United States continued to fund the South Vietnamese but not for too much longer.
August 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned from his presidency because of the Watergate scandal; abusing his power or corruption and trumping to cover it up.
North Vietnamese stepped up their attack towards the South Vietnamese, which resulted in them losing Saigon to the North Vietnamese (pg.229). They reunited the country under communist rule as the socialist Republic of Vietnam. This ended the war; South Vietnam lost the war not the U.S because of the Vietnamization policy, thought we funded them but we stopped before they
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