Vietnam war:
- ways to get out would to be rich, marriage deferment, college deferment, claim to be homosexual, or to flee to Canada.
- if you were a poor, black, young man, you had a good chance to go to Vietnam.
- Johnson decides not run for second term.
- Nixon Promised to get out of the war, which made him very popular to the American citizens.
- he called for "Peace with Honor"
- means to leave with our heads held high and with honor
- he didn't want to be the first president to lose a war
- expanded the war to Laos and Cambodia; a very unpopular decision that started a lot of campus riots.
- they did this to get to the Ho Chi Mein trial, but that was not just a highway system, it was a jungle, so they just went around the U. S troops.
- January 15, 1973, the war ended.
group test Tuesday and Wednesday.
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