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Nixon Announces Redeployment of 150,000 Troops

April 20, 1970

Nixon’s speech from the White House announcing redeployment of 150,000 Troops, April 20, 1970
Nixon’s speech from the White House announcing redeployment of 150,000 Troops, April 20, 1970
Nixon’s speech from the White House announcing redeployment of 150,000 Troops, April 20, 1970

President Nixon, in a televised address to the country, says that the United States has “now reached a point where we can confidently move . . . to a longer-range program for the replacement of Americans by South Vietnamese troops.” He announces that 150,000 U.S. troops will leave Vietnam over the next 12 months.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), 162–63 (quoted material begins at bottom of p. 162).