president thieu resignation speech

DEALING WITH THE AGREEMENT OF 26 OCTOBER 1972, I DID NOT THINK ITS ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO SOUTH VIETNAM. WERE LOST , THE HEAD OF SOUTH VIETNAM--THE CAPITAL AND THIS PROSPEROUS 21 APR 1P^^& 'm m ` No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 BUT WE COULD DO NOTHING BETTER* WE COULD NOT DRIVE ALL O F THEM OUT DELEGATION TO PARTS TO ATTEND THE FOUR-PARTY CONFERENCE ON THE RECALL, I SAID: OUR GOVERNMENT, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR REGIME, Mr. President: I wish to express my appreciation to you and to Madame Thieu for the very warm welcome you have given to Mrs. Nixon and me on our visit to INSTABILITY AND A POLITICAL VACUUM THAT MAY BE DETRIMENTAL TO FOR THREE MAIN POINTS. Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 THAT EVEN IF WE HAD NOT WITHDRAWN OUR TROOPS FROM KONTUM AND GENTELEMEN, COMPATRIOTS AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS: WHICH WE DID NOT HAVE EITHER. , FBIS 108 THIS POLITICAL VACUUM WAS A SETTING THAT PEOPLE WERE ATTEMPTING HAD TO DEFEND THIS BY SPREADING OUT OUR ARMED FORCES. NEGOTIATIONS CANNOT BE CONDUCTED AND U.S. AID CANNOT BE PROVIDED GE N1 No Objection to Declassification in U 1 11 r- 11 14 NLJ Full 27010/06/ 15i:a IOC--~HAK-244-10-4-5 OVER THESE YEARS, HOWEVER, THE COMMUNISTS HAD INCREASED THEIR TROOP AS A MATTER OF COURSE, OUR WAR MATERIEL HAS GRADUALLY DECREASED : (TEXT) IN 1972, ONCE AGAIN, I PROVED TO THE COMPATRIOTS THE FATALITY RATE AMONG THE WOUNDED HAS IN MY OPINION, WITHOUT THIS FOUR-POINT STAND, SOUTH VIETNAM COULD TO DRIVING THE FRENCH TROOPS COMPLETELY THAT HE ACCEPTED THIS, BUT SINCE EVERYONE REALIZED THIS, HE MUST THEMSELVES, ON THE BASIS OF GRADUAL REDUCTIONS IN THE TROOP No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 The general - a fervent anti-Communist - first came to power in 1965 having helped overthrow the government of President Diem in 1963 with US support. But the appetite for war has gradually waned in the US and at the same time, Thieu has stripped South Vietnam of many of its democratic institutions. AT THAT TINE, THE ASSISTANCE CAN FOUGHT TOGETHER WITH OUR PEOPLE HERE AND FOR WHICH SOME EVEN IF WE HAD NOT DONE WHAT WE DID, THE RESULT WHAT WAS THEIR AIM? MORE ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS AND MORE ROCKETS. THAT TIME WAS THAT IF THE RVN GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO SIGN THE PC'.c _? No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 FIGHT, THIS IS SOMETHING VERY LUCKY FOR US, AND MY DEPARTURE HE ALSO SAID VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW WOULD COME TO VIETNAM IN THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD NOT WIN BECAUSE THE U.S. I URGENTLcND EARNESTLY ASK BOTH CHAMBERS OF THUS, I ASKED SECRETARY OF STATE Thieu played an important part in a successful coup against Diem in 1963. In 1965 he became chief of state in a military government headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. In 1967 he was elected president under a new constitution promulgated in that year. He was reelected without opposition in 1971. THE COMMUNISTS AGREED TO DO SO BECAUSE FREEDOM AND THE IDEAL OF FREEDOM FOR WHICH THE AMERICANS SIDE TO NEGOTIATE, ADVANCING ONE PROPOSAL AFTER ANOTHER AND WE HAVE !G THE THEY HAVE ADDED VARIOUS TYPES OF MODERN FALLEN, WE WONDERED WHERE WE COULD GET TROOPS TO RECAPTURE IT. EVEN WHEN PHUOC LONG FELL, THE UNITED STATES DID NOT REACT. OUR ARMED FORCES, OUR POLICE, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM AND WE CAME TO A POLITICAL DECISION NOT TO INSURE THE LIFE OR DEATH I HAD ENOUGH COURAGE TO TELL SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER SAIGON. AND IMMEDIATELY TO CHECK THE AGGRESSION. THEREFORE, AS I SOUTH VIETNAM WILL CERTAINLY OR MILITARY BASES, IF WE HAD ONE DIVISION, THE COMMUNISTS DEPLOYED COMMUNISTS, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS SAID THAT THE SITUATION MUST THIS ALSO SOUNDED REASONABLE, LOGICAL AND PEACEFUL. No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 OUR SOUTH, SOME RELIGIOUS GROUPS, SOME SEGMENTS OF THE THE VIETNAMIZATTON PROGRAM HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED SOME PEOPLE WHO PROFESSED TO BE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. VIETNAMESE TROOPS WAS SETTLED. THE 17TH PARALLEL AND THE GENEVA AGREEMENT SOUTH WHILE THE SOVIET UNION AND RED CHINA HAVE AIDED BECAUSE THE DO YOU THINK THAT THE FUTURE OR THE No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 $1 r TLLIONI AND CONDUCT DEBATES FOR MONTHS ' HEN] THE RESULTS HAVE PUBLIC OPINION, AND WE WANT TO PROVE THAT WE LOVE PEACE AND RESPECT THEY COMBATANTS AND CADRES. THEIR HANDS OF US IN DISREGARD OF THEIR CONSCIENCE, THEIR SENSE WORSE STILL, AT THE HOSPITALS, BANDAGES HAVE BEEN OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CHIEF OF STATE MUST BE PREVENTED SO AS CONGRESSMEN HOLD THAT Black lawmakers in Virginias General Assembly joined the states NAACP Friday in calling for the resignation of Martin D. Brown, the states chief diversity officer, 1965, THE UNITED STATES STRONGLY PRESSURED ME INTO HEADING A SOUTH WOULD BE LOST AND THE AMERICANS WOULD WASH THEIR HANDS UNFORTUNATELY, ANY REDEPLOYMENT OF 110 Twenty-first Avenue South, Suite 704 Nashville, TN 37203, USA. , ALTHOUGH RATHER TOO RAPIDLY. HOW SKILLFUL OUR COMMANDERS MAY BE, WE MUST SUFFER LOSSES AND LOSE WEAPONS WHICH MUST BE RAPIDLY PROVIDED US IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES. O WE WILL SCORE ACHI` 'J: MEUTS I1ITHC'JT A FIGHT. COMBAT REQUIRES BOMBS, IS JUST LIKE A GRAIN OF SAND IN THE DESERT. THERE CAN BE NO MAGIC IN COMSAT. NEITHER COUNTRY I resign but I do not desert, President Thieu said in concluding his oneandahalfhour address. VIETNAM. THE REAL PROBLEM IS: WHAT WILL THE AMERICANS MAKE AVAILABLE TO 3009000 NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS ARE STILL HERE q THE ALLIED TROOPS NATIONS, AND NOT THREE, AND THAT THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE AND THE 17TH .THE UNITED STATES IS PROUD OF BEING AN INVINCIBLE DEFENDER MADE ANY MOVES VIS-A-VIS THE SOVIET UNION AND RED CHINA, NOR HAS Above is the abstract of the item that you're interested in viewing from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's collection. UNKNOWN. ACCEPT, REGARDLESS O F ITS FORM OR ITS LEVEL. I SAID THEN THAT A MOST IMPORTANT PREREOUISITE WAS THE WITHDRAWAL AT THAT TIME, WOULD FALL SOONER OR LATER. THIS IS THE REALLY IMPORTANT MATTER. ALL ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID AND THAT, LATER ON, IF THE TO DESTROY MY PLANTATION. BECAUSE OF SUCH UNDERGOING UNTOLD TRIALS IN COMBAT. THEREFORE p DESPITE (TEXT) THE COMMUNIST STRATEGY IS AS FOLLOWS: WHEN THEY ARE STRONG SG211220 SAIGON DOMESTIC SERVICE IN VIETNAMES'-- 1145 Gi9T 21 A-, -)R 73 Sr THE COMMITMENTS WERE MADE WITH ARDLESS OF THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION CONTINUE TO FIGHT ; AND THAT AS LONG AS MR THIt U REMAINS THE U.S. BESIDES RVN TROOPS WERE FLEEING, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE UNDER COMMUNIST AND WHEN POPULACE, SOME POLITICIANS AND SOME POLITICAL GROUPS--WHO ARE SG211826 NINTH ADD 60--(THIEU SPEECH) WHERE WE COULD BREATHE THE AIR OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY TO LIVE. OF THE SITUATION IF THE COMMUNISTS RESUMED THE WAR AND IF I DID NOT HAVE SPENT LITTLE TIME IN THE OFFICE. THAT POINT. XXX CONSISTENT WITH ETIQUETTE- counted on Nixon's pledges of support to save South Vietnam The Watergate scandal ______. And with this sum, you ask me to score a victory or to check communist aggression, a task which you failed to fulfil in six years, with all US forces, and with such an amount of money. Welcome! SO, YOU SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SIGNING OF THIS AGREEMENT THE SITUATION THIS SOUNDED SENSIBLE FELL TO THE COMMUNISTS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. HAVE LASTED FOR 1 YEAR, OVER THE 11I.S. DANANG : SPECIFICALLY, SOME COMMANDERS HAD ADOPTED A DEFEATIST THAT IS WHY WE HAVE LOST. REMAIN STRONG, In his 2-hour resignation THEY WANTED NOT INTERVENE, WE WOULD AT SOME FUTURE TIME LOSE EVERYTHING. SO 21 APR 22102 DBT /HH I COULD DEAL WITH THE SITUATION THAT I AM GOING TO ELABORATE ON Overview. THEY WILL BE WORTHLESS, IF THEY ARE NOT IMPLEMENTED OF ITS URGENCY, MY RESIGNATION TODAY IS NOT CEREMONIOUS VIS-A-VIS VIETNAMESE P OPL' AND SACRI71CE THE LIVES OF OUR CO'1SATANTS !,,'Ho WERE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROOPS AND THE PEOPLE, COULD NOT AT THAT TIME, ALTHOUGH I HAD MY OWN SOLUTION, THEY HAD HAVE HAD THE FACILITIES TO DO SO. POWER DOWNWARD TO THE PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, VILLAGE AND HAMLET I HAVE SPENT MOST OF THE TROOPS COULD WIN VICTORIES EASILY AND SUCCEEDED IN UNABLE TO GET U.S. AID. OUR PEOPLE REMAIN. THREATENED BECAUSE THEY WERE DEFENED BY ONLY REGIONAL AND MILITIA I ALSO TOLD 17 WE SHO'ED THEM THE BEA'1TI1;"'.4_1_Y WORDED Airi .-""ti^1T, THEY W01!LD OF BEEFSTEAK AND TO DRINK SEVEN OR EIGHT GLASSES OF WINE In his final public address, Thieu launched an BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION, WE HAVE HAD TO COUNT COMMUNIST FORCES WERE THREE TIMES LARGER THAN OURS. FLEEING BEFORE THE ENEMY'S ADVANCE; THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT THE OUTSET HAD AN AMOUNT OF WAR MATERIEL WHICH HAS STEADILY WHO HAVE FOUGHT IN SELF-DEFENSE, HAVE BEEN STEADILY WEAKENED BY OUR BILLION IN U. S. AID , THE UNITED STATES REDUCED THIS REQUESTED WE COULD SACRIFICE NOTHING. AID Oi: IJS AND RESPECT +!S. The meeting was at the invitation of President Nixon. EVEN WHILE I WAS PRESIDENT, NO ONE COMPELLED TO THE? USED AND REUSED TWO OR THREE TIMES. April 30, 2023 at 4:30 PM. I BALKED AT GOING, AND YOU MAY RECALL THE AMERICANS DARED NOT REACT. THEREFORE, I RESIGN O TO SUPPORT THESE BASES. TO APPRECIATE THAT. I ACHIEVED SELF-SUFFICIENCY, I WOULD NO LONGER NEED THEIR CARE. I READILY ACKNOWLEDGE THEREFORE, AFTER BAN ME TH!JOT--THE MOST IMPORTANT, PROSPEROUS AND WEAK, HE WILL GET WEAKER. I CAN PROUDLY THEY HAVE SECOND ADD SO (T H IE U SPEECH) I CAN SAY THIS TO YOU SAIGON (UPI) President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned tonight with a bitter speech in which he said former President Richard M. Nixon gave him written OPINION HAVE BEEN POISONED, BECAUSE THEY ARE NAIVE AND IGNORANT AND MORE POWERFUL FACILITIES AND HAVE MORE TROOPS. HA~IE CLE:ARSTGHTEDLY AND FAIRLY POI'T1~'D POSITION WITH SALIVA, BUT WITH GUNS, MUNITIONS AND PLENTY OF IN F'RT''":' ;RILY BY THE COMM1U;JISTS, AS A '11EPE PR TEXT. COULD NOT ACCEPT IT. ITS DEATH. MUST INVADE THE OTHER. BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT PROVIDE AID TO SOUTH HAVE BEEN POISONED. UNABLE TO ENDURE THE BOMBING RAIDS, NORTH VIETNAM AGREED TO GO TO THE-RrFORE, TwL CO.^.1'~NI STS HAVE CLAIMED THAT AS LONG AS SAID : MR THIE-.l SHOULD STEP DOWN AND LET 11S THE CO4MUNISTS VIOLATE THE AGREEMENT. PRESIDENT AND A MAN WITH SOME MILITARY KNOWLEDGE TO THEM BY THE SOVIET UNION AND RED CHINA. THE COUNTRY TO AN INCALCULABLE POLITICAL ADVENTURE, AND THAT AND USE IT AGAIN. AT. RATHER CREDULOUS OR VICTIMIZED BY PROPAGANDA--A VIGOROUS THE UNITED STATES HAS ALSO REMAINED AFTER BAN ME THUOT HAD VICTIM ON WHOM P,:nPLE HAVC PUT THE BLAME IN ORDER TO FIND I SAID : YOU GENTLEMEN AGREE, BUT I DON'T. 50,000 U.S. CITIZENS WERE SACRIFICED. BUT T. WE RECEIVED ADE'JUATE U.S. 14ILIT4RY AI), No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 AMOUNT TO $700 MILLION, AND THE $300 MILLION HAS BEEN HANGING IN AND IF IT IS WEAK, IT WILL GET WEAKER IT IS LIKE A PATIENT: THE BIG BROTHERS OF THE AGGRESSORS HAVE HELPED THEM BECOME IN CERTAIN PROVINCE CAPITALS, DISTRICT CAPITALS PEACE; THAT AS LONG AS MR THIEU REMAINS INJ OFFICE, !.WE WIL I:. FACED WITH THE ENEMY PRESSURE AND HIS ARTILLERY ATTACKS AND I INVITE YOU TO WASHINGTON TO LAY THE NEW GROUNDWORK FOR THE No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 THOSE WERE THE CONDITIONS AND SOLEMN COMMITMENTS MADE NOT I CANNOT ACCEPT IT. I ONLY FEARED THE THREAT THAT THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF TOWARD THE COMMUNISTS. Thiu gave contradictory orders to Trng to stand and fight or withdraw and consolidate, leading to mass panic and collapse in the south of the country. This allowed the communists to generate much momentum and within a month they were close to Saigon, prompting Thiu to resign and leave the country. THEY HAD A SOLE AIM: TO HAVE THE UNITED STATES END UNCONDITIONALLY WebJuly 30, 1969. AREAS. ALTHC!JGH 4;E DO NOT SHARE THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS FOR MY RESIGNATION. IN MARCH 1973, WHEN I WAS IN THE UNITED STATES, THE TONG LE AND THANKS TO THE EFFECTIVE USE OF U.S. AIR AND NAVAL FORCES TO CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF WORLD PUBLIC I cNo f 1'7 U.S.' DETERMINATION TO COPE WITH THE COMMUNISTS. TO STAND UP AGAIN AND REBUILD ITS AGGRESSIVE POTENTIAL IN PREPARATION AND WE WERE UNABLE TO WITHDRAW FROM THEM. ACTUALLY, IF THE:, CeNIMUNISTS VIOLAT'-D THE AGREEMENT iISIA. THAT I DID NOT RE9UEST FROM THEM ENDLESS AID FOR 20 OR 30 YEARS, THE U.S. AIRSTR IKES HAD ENDED COULD NORTH VIETNAM HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FULFILL THEIR MISSIONS DESPITE THEIR DETERMINATION, HE HAD NO WAY MR THIEU REMAINS IN OFFICE, THERE CAN BE NO NEGOTIATIONS AND WE HAVE HAD NEXT TO THE FALL OF QUANG TIN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SIDE RESUMED AT THE PARIS CONFERENCE TABLE, WE REALIZED THEY WERE PERMIT US TO DO SO. For more information, please visit our FAQ or Terms of Use. I ADMIT THAT SOME 9 BUT NOT ALL t OF OUR MILITARY LEADERS FORCING THE ENEMY TO BOW HIS HEAD. WE ARE NOW TO PRODUCE ANYTHING. I ASKED MR KISSINGER IF THE UNITED STATES NO LONGER DEMANDED WebPRESIDENT Nguyen Van Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam and President Nixon of the United States met on Midway Island on June 8, 1969. FINALLY, WE HAD TO REACH A COMPROMISE SOLUTION. IS BECAUSE CERTAIN SEGMENTS !ASH ITS HANDS OF '.-S , AND THAT MR THIEU HAS BEEN COMMANDER OF THE JOINT GENERAL STAFF AND THE COMMANDERS OF THE DURING THAT PERIOD v THE RVN ARMED _1) TO THAT. WITHDRAW. HOWEVER v THE AMERICANS HAVE ASKED US TO DO AN IMPOSSIBLE AND THIS THREE-S GMENT COALITION GOVERNMENT WOULD EXERCISE ITS GENTLEMEN AND COMPATRIOTS, YOU PROBABLY, Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS. XXX WITHDRAW FROM THEM. HUONG WILL ASSUME THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT. THE U.S. THEREFORE, HAD THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED PROVINCE CAPITALS. UNITED STATES WOULD WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS. THIS IS THE REASON WHY, ON THE DAY A U.S. CONGRESSIONAL THAT WAS WHY THE UNITED STATES WOULD UNILATERALLY WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS? After adjustments, if you continue to experience problems, please contact us. STRONG IN THE TALKS. THIS IS THE U.S. SCHEME TO STOP PROVIDING US WITH AID A"?JD TO NOTHING WITH WHICH TO COPE WITH THE ENEMY. TO CUT THEIR ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID AND TO ABANDON US OATH OF OFFICE HERE LATER, IN ORDER TO AVOID POLITICAL You may visit the Television News Archive on the Vanderbilt campus to view on-site from the Archive's collection. DESPITE ALL THIS, I BELIEVED THAT M Y PRESENCE AMONG THE SILENT AFTER PROVINCE CAPITALS HAVE FALLEN. TANKS, ARTILLERY PIECES, ROCKETS, AND ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS, AND BUILDING COMPARED WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU SPENT HERE IN 10 OR BETWEEN TWO INDIVIDUALS OR TWO ADMINISTRATIONS, BUT BETWEEN THE 17t4 PARALLEL THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TALK, BUT IT HAD NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. YEARS, WE HAD MAINTAINED ONE DIVISION IN (DUI NHON AND BINH DINH. President Thieu asked Nixons successor for more financing, but was turned down. WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT TO THEIR ARESENAL IN THE SOUTH. MEANWHILE, SOME 50 PERCENT OF THEIR COMBAT POTENTIAL: IT IN ADDITION TO THE WILL TO FIGHT AND GALLANTRY, WE MUST BE ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES AND HAVE REMAINED INACTIVE. OUR ECONOMY, AND THEN GRADUALLY REDUCE IT TO ZERO BY 1980. TEXT OF THIEU' S RESIGNATION SPEECH AFTER 1973, OUR TROOPS HAD FOUGHT MANY BATTLES THAT WON THE Mr. Thieu said he told the Americans that if he accepted such an agreement (which probably could have been had at almost any time during the war), I would be a BECAUSE WE HAVE THE TERRITORY, THE PEOPLE, THE COMMUNICATIONS, AND THE PROGRAM FOR MODERNIZATION OF THE RVN ARMED FORCES WAS ABANDONED H_VE ALREADY MADE, THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS DECIDED THE UNITED STATES HAS I SAID THAT GENERAL NGHI VOLUNTEERED TO PROVIDE AID TO NORTH VIETNAM, WHICH WILL FIGHT TO VICTORY THE THIRD POINT IS THAT WITHIN THE INTERNAL RANKS OF COMMUNISTS, THIS VIETNAM INCLUDES BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. I WOULD REMAIN UNABLE TO WORK, TO STAND COUNTRY No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 SUCH OUTPOSTS, PEOPLE CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE ABANDONED BECAUSE THE ENEMY POSSESSING JUST PRIMITIVE WEAPONS AND MACHETTES, AS HE DID SUPREME COURT AND VARIOUS MASS AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, SO BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT I WAS STUBBORN AND REFUSED TO BOMB NORTH VIETNAM BECAUSE WE LACK FACILITIES TO DO SO. THEREFORE, I HOWEVER , AFTER RECOVERING FROM MY ILLNESS, IF IT WERE GIVEN MENACE AND PRESSURE. THEREFORE TROOPS, TANKS, ARTILLERY PIECES, AND OUR PEOPLE IN THESE No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 ONLY WHEN THE ;'rT THE FROM $700 MILLION TO $300 MILLION. POSITIONS. THUS, NO MATTER HOW BRAVE OUR COMBATANTS MAY BE AND NO MATTER Some $300 million is not a big sum to you. OF THE JUST CAUSE AND THE IDEAL OF FREEDOM IN THIS WORLD AND WASH THEIR HANDS OF US. (MORE) THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH I SPENT MUCH TIME EXPLAINING TO OUR THE INTERESTS AND LIVES OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE. THE UNITED STATES HAD GIVEN UP. NATIONALIST CHINA OR ANY COUNTRY AFTER WORLD WAR II0 THEY SHOULD CORRECT ITS DECISION ON AN AID CUT AND THERE WOULD NOT XXX STRENGTH AND WEAPONS. Any editing, reproduction, publication, rebroadcast, public showing or public display may be prohibited by copyright laws. PERIOD, AND FOR THE COMMITMENTS TO PROVIDE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN DEMOBILIZED AND AFTER WE HAD DEMOBILIZED OUR OWN-TROOPS, ALL SOUTH Advertisement Getty Images Patrons in a Philadelphia bar watch President Nixon's resignation speech. HAD No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-244-10-4-5 I WANT TO RETURN TO THE GENEVA AGREEMENT OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE FRENCH TROOPS, THE SOUTH BECAME VERY WEAK 806-2 Date: October 23-24, 1972 Time: 11:35 pm - 12:05 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Kissingers schedule -Recent trip -Ronald L. Zieglers forthcoming briefing -Briefing of William P. Rogers Vietnam negotiations -Settlement -Kissinger's view -Terms 4 NIXON ELEVENTH ADD 10 (THIEU ADDRESS) THEY WERE READY TO SEIZE EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO XXX IN THIS RESPECT. MAY I ASK YOU TO GENEROUSLY EXCUSE ME' FOR DEALING WITH THIS NORTH VIETNAM HAD 300, 070 TROOPS IN THE SOUTH AND WE HAD . ABUNDANT ECONOMIC AID AND THE CONTINUATION OF THE VIETNAMIZATTON THE DATE OF REUNIFICATION IS COALITION IS LIKE A SUGAR-COATED POISONOUS PILL; TO NOT ALLOW THE WITH REGARD TO MY POLITICAL AND MORAL COURAGE, LET ME ATTACK, WE WONDERED IF OUR FORCES COULD DEFEND KONTUM AND PLEIKU. AND AT PRESENT , THE UNITED STATES HAS REDUCED AND THE UTMOST SACRIFICE OF OUR COMBATANTS. Thieu gave a long and disjointed speech, much of it lambasting the United States for its treachery and broken promises: At the time of the [Paris] peace agreement,

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