1. Political Results
• New Hampshire Primary
• LBJ 49%
• Senator Eugene
McCarthy 48.6% (Minn)
• Soon Robert Kennedy
would enter the race for
1968.

2. Home Front
• Hawks – pro-war
• Doves – anti-war
• Norman Morrison
• Quaker, father of 3 threw child
near the Pentagon
• Then set himself on fire due to
the war
• March 31, 1968-LBJ
announced that he would not
run for a 2nd term & halt
bombing
• Alice Herz
• 82 year old woman that
burned herself alive-Detroit

3. E. Nixon
• “I’m not going to end
up like LBJ. I’m going to
end that war fast.”
• Can we win? Henry
Kissinger told Nixon
that Vietnam could be
won in 8-13 years!

4. Peace w/Honor
• How do we end the war
in Vietnam?
• Peace with Honor
• Withdraw troops,
negotiate, and when they
do not accept bomb
• Push USSR/China to help
end the war…
• Creighton Abrams
replaces Westmoreland

5. Nixon Doctrine
• 1. US shall keep all
treaty commitments.
• 2. US shall provide a
shield of nuclear power
to a country that is an
ally or vital to our
security.
• 3. We will give $$ and
military aid to others
but they are responsible
for their primary
defense.

6. Madman Theory
• Goal-Make the NV think
that Nixon had lost his
mind in order to end the
war
• Ex: Boxer Shorts
• Operation Duck Hook-
called for the possibility of
dropping nuclear
weapons across NV by
Nov. 1, 1969

7. Operation Linebacker I
April 10, 1972
• LBJ-March 31, 1968
• End all bombing of North
Vietnam
• Restart the Air War
against the North
• Destroy anything that
could be used as an
offensive weapon
• Dropped mines in
harbors of NV
• Destroyed 4 USSR ships

8. Operation Linebacker II
• Known as the
Christmas
bombings
• December 1972
• Round the clock
bombings of
civilian targets like
hospitals and
orphanages
• Estimated 2000
Casualties on Day 1

9. Vietnamization
• Plan by the Nixon
administration to turn
the fighting in Vietnam
over to SV.
• This lowered US military
effectiveness.

10. Troop Withdrawal
• Nixon uses his Peace
with Honor approach
• Starts to withdraw
troops over a 14 pt.
phased plan
• 1968-560,000
• 1972-60,000

11. Domestic America
• Nixon guards the White
House (January 1970) -
300 soldiers
• “Draft Beer, not Kids”
• “1,2,3,4, we don’t want
your ------- war”
• “Hey, hey LBJ, how many
kids did you kill today?”

12. Anti-War Protesting
• The war wasn’t ending
like most Americans
had hoped.
• Bombing escalated
• Involvement in Laos &
Cambodia increased
• Congress is angered over
the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution