![]() … In late October 1968 there were major concessions from Hanoi which promised to allow meaningful talks to get underway in Paris – concessions that would justify Johnson calling for a complete bombing halt of North Vietnam. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. Nixon’s Presidental campaign needed the war to continue, since Nixon was running on a platform that opposed the war. ![]() Despite the country’s polarization, the balance of American public opinion was beginning to sway toward “de-escalation” of the war. They took their protests to the streets in peace marches, demonstrations, and acts of civil disobedience. war effort could succeed or was morally justifiable. participation in the Vietnam War had grown stronger as growing numbers of Americans questioned whether the U.S. In 1967, with American troop strength in Vietnam reaching 500,000, protest against U.S. By the late 1960s Americans had been involved in the Vietnam War for nearly a decade, and the ongoing conflict was an incredibly contentious issue, says PBS: ![]() In 1968, the Paris Peace talks, intended to put an end to the 13-year-long Vietnam War, failed because an aide working for then-Presidential candidate Richard Nixon convinced the South Vietnamese to walk away from the dealings, says a new report by the BBC’s David Taylor. Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign.
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