The Great Silent Majority: Warfare Quotes

To give Nixon a bit of credit, he did want to see the end of the Vietnam War. He also believed that his plan for Vietnamization was the best route to get this goal achieved. When he ran for president, he ran under the promise of ending the war, which he was unable to do. But he did immediately start removing American troops when he first came into office.

Here's where Nixon really starts laying out his war strategy. Basically, he wants to get the Vietnamese to fight the Vietnam War. It may sound a little obvious to say that, but American troops were in so deep in Vietnam that they were doing the vast majority of the fighting.