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Nixon said the ceasefire agreement was initialed in Paris earlier today by Henry Kissinger, his chief Vietnam negotiator, and Hanoi’s Le Duc Tho. He said it would go into effect at 7 p.m. (New ...
In this archival video clip from January 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announces an agreement to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Jan. 24, 1973 Prayers offered after Vietnam cease-fire Unlike the celebration held throughout the land with the end of fighting in World War II, the announcement of the end of the fighting in Vietn… ...
Nixon’s newly revealed records show for certain that in 1968, as a presidential candidate, he ordered Anna Chennault, his liaison to the South Vietnam government, to persuade them refuse a cease ...
On this day in 1969, Melvin Laird, secretary of defense in the new Nixon administration, announced that responsibility for engaging communist-run North Vietnam and Viet Cong guerrillas in battle ...