Theres no understanding of america in the 1970s without understanding how the decade began in relationship to the war in vietnam. Normally live casualties for the previously week are released on thursday, but fighting has been so bitter that military sources released the casualties unofficially today. 340 americans and 527 South Vietnamese were killed last week. Enemy dead were reported to be more than 5,000. There was some grumbling among numbers of young g. I. S taking part in the assaults, questioning whether the objective is worth the bloodshed. Out here in this very difficult war, i thinks history will report this may have been one of americas finest hours because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. Youre doing your job. I can assure you were going to try to do ours to see that they didnt fight in vain. Thank you very much. Nixon did not want to be the first president of the United States to lose a war. It was a matter of personal pride with him. His basic goal was to end t
End of the tunnel, and there is no light there. Theres no understanding of america in the 1970s without understanding how the decade began in relationship to the war in vietnam. Normally live casualties for the previous week are released on thursday. But fighting in the last week has been so bitter that military sources released the casualties unofficially today. 340 americans and 527 South Vietnamese were killed last week. Enemy dead were reported to be more than 5,000. There was some grumbling among numbers of young g. I. S taking part in the assaults, questioning whether the objective is worth the bloodshed. Out here in this very difficult war, i think history will report this may have been one of americas finest hours because we took a difficult task, and we succeeded. Youre doing your job. I can assure you were going to try to do ours to see that you didnt fight in vein. Thank you very much. Nixon did not want to be the first president of the United States to lose a war. It was a