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Nixon Announces First Major Troop Withdrawals

June 10, 1969

President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu Making a Joint Statement at M
President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu Making a Joint Statement at M
President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu Making a Joint Statement at Midway Island, June 8, 1969

At a conference with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island, President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 25,000 troops from Vietnam by the end of August. The first to leave are elements of the 3d Marine Division and the Army 9th Infantry Division. It is the first significant redeployment of American troops in the war.1

Graham A. Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968–1973, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2006), 153.