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He missed his next and welcome to Japan. How long will you be here. Well I'm going to be here a total of three nights and parts of two days. Well I presume the highlight of your round the world trip has been in Saigon. Did what you see there make you optimistic pessimistic. I would say that going to Saigon now and comparing it with the times I've been there in the past that the situation looks better now than it has on the four previous occasions in which I visited Saigon. There is no question now as to the outcome in Vietnam. The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong are not going to succeed. The question now is one of time. How long it's going to take and also what will happen after the military phase of the struggle is over. On that score I believe that progress is being made and that we can look to a successful conclusion with then shall we say a reasonable time when everyone seems to be playing a numbers game about the number of American troops
needed to fight you here figures four hundred thousand seven hundred thousand a million. What do you think. No one could be an expert who isn't in the military and even they when you ask this question as I ask everybody I talked to didn't get down to two specific terms.
Series
American Experience
Program
Nixon
Episode Number
302
Raw Footage
Nixon speech to ABC reporter
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Nixon speech: "There is no question now as to the outcome in Vietnam. The North Vietnamese and the Vietcong are not going to succeed. The only question now is one of time, and what happens after the military phase."
Date
1966-08-12
Date
1966-08-12
Asset type
Raw Footage
Topics
History
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Military assistance, American; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Tokyo (Japan); United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989; Mat tran dan toc giai phong mien nam Viet Nam; United States--Foreign relations--Asia; Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Mass media and the war; United States--History--1945-; United States--Armed Forces; North Vietnamese Army
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Duration
00:01:52
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Speaker2: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
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Duration: 00:01:52:18
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Chicago: “American Experience; Nixon; 302; Nixon speech to ABC reporter,” 1966-08-12, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-ms3jw86v7c.
MLA: “American Experience; Nixon; 302; Nixon speech to ABC reporter.” 1966-08-12. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-ms3jw86v7c>.
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