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As you can see from the progress we've made today, by this announcement, the American involvement in Vietnam is coming to an end.

The South Vietnamese can take over their own defenses in sight.

Our goal is a total American withdrawal from Vietnam.

And we will reach that goal through our program on civilization.

We would infinitely prefer to reach it even sooner.

I again call on Hanoi to engage in serious negotiations to speed the end of the war.

I especially call on Hanoi to agree to the immediate end of the unconditional release of all prisoners of war who are under attack.

On the other hand, on the end of our very use of our purpose as negotiators and pawns, to join us in a humane act that will freeze their name as well as ours.

And now we'll move to the first glance at a great deal of appeal to the matter.

So confident, you know, that we can control all forces.

I want to announce a date now for the end of our call.

The difficulty of making such an announcement to the American people is that I would also make the announcement to the United States.

We are the enemy's purpose on our own.

We will quit regardless of what the enemy does.

In a way, our principle barred the encounter with the police of the United States during World War II.

We would remove the enemy's strongholds and send them to end the war as children by negotiation.

People have given enemy commanders the exact information they need to marshal their attacks against our remaining forces at them at the momentable time.

The issue, very simply, is this.

We leave Vietnam in a way that by our own actions consciously turns the country over to the country.

So we leave it in a way that gives the South Vietnamese a reasonable chance to survive and free people.

The land will end American involvement in a way that will provide that chance.

I would have it presented with a good victory or not.

It presents two days of choice in editing our involvement in this war on another despair or another hope.

Thank you, Mr. Thomas Jefferson.

America will always choose hope over despair.

And in our power, they lead Vietnam in a way that offers a brave people a realistic hope for freedom.

And in our power to prove to our friends in the world that America's sense of responsibility remains the world's greatest symbol of hope for peace.

We have in our power to close the difficult chapters in America.

We need them, but no one.

So each one of us can come out of this serious experience with a measure of pride in our nation.

We would abandon ourselves.

We would budge from the anguish of war to a nightmare of incrimination.

We would lose respect for this nation, respect for one another, respect for ourselves.

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soldiers who build schools, roads, hospitals, clinics, and help us act in general readiness, kindness, and helping people.

We saw it in Vietnam.

And we should be very proud of what we've done.

Not our son, but our appreciation and our deep respect for America.

The President's appreciation is to the dead America's participation in this conflict, not in failure or defeat, but in the achievement of the great goals in which they saw it.

It will redeem the sacrifices of the world.

I do not ask you to take what I say on paper.

Look for it.

Look again at that child.

Is it in me to accomplish what I set out to do?

I have to do something.

I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be part of this celebration.

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