on honorable terms with preserving in his view credibility as a world power and as an ally. >> president nixon will dispatch his adviser on foreign affairs, henry kissinger, to paris for the peace talks. >> it is thought that the u.s. is working out a new proposal to offer to the vietcong and north vietnam. >> nixon's strategy on vietnam was to negotiate a peace agreement but at the same time to vietnamize the conflict. >> we had to turn the war over to south vietnam or it would be helpless. we couldn't fight their war forever. >> the south vietnamese were taught to think like americans, act like americans fight like americans. >> south vietnam's president thieu, he wanted nothing more than to gradually take over full responsibility for the war. >> president nixon started withdrawing troops almost right away. he had a lot to withdraw. over 500,000 men were there. >> but he did this very slowly. as they supposedly shifted the burden of the fighting to the south vietnamese. it was going so slowly a lot of people were getting killed in