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Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings - Feb 03, 1970 - HISTORY.com

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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings on the conduct of the war by the Nixon administration. Senator Charles Goodell (R-New York) said that Vietnamization (President Richard Nixon’s program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a “great public relations success.” Taking exception with Senator Goodell’s assessment, Senators Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Thomas Eagleton (D-Missouri), and Alan Cranston (D-California) testified in support of a Senate resolution calling for the termination of the American commitment to South Vietnam unless the Saigon government took steps to broaden its cabinet, stop press censorship, and release political prisoners.

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LTC Stephen F.

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Thanks for reminding us SP5 Mark Kuzinski. It is amazing in hindsight that Senator Charles Goodell testified that Vietnamization (President Richard Nixon’s program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a “great public relations success.”
That program was based on a timetable instead of measureable progress in the Vietnamese military forces to assume the responsibility for defending their nation and communist aggression from the NVA and VC. The Vietnamese were not supported to any meaningful degree by our congress in those days as Senators Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Thomas Eagleton (D-Missouri), and Alan Cranston (D-California) took exception to his testimony and they were ready, willing and able to bail of South Vietnam because they wanted the " Saigon government took steps to broaden its cabinet, stop press censorship, and release political prisoners."
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