The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings on the conduct of the war by the Nixon administration. Senator Charles Goodell (R-New York) said that Vietnamization (President Richard Nixon's program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a "great public relations success." Taking exception with Senator Goodell's assessment, Senators Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Thomas Eagleton (D-Missouri), and Alan Cranston (D-California) testified in support of a Senate resolution calling for the termination of the American commitment to South Vietnam unless the Saigon government took steps to broaden its cabinet, stop press censorship, and release political prisoners.
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Feb 3, 1970:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
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This Week in History, Feb 3 - Feb 9
- Feb 03, 1955
- Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms
- Feb 03, 1970
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
- Feb 04, 1962
- First U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam.
- Feb 04, 1965
- Rumors fly about U.S.-Soviet pressure on allies in Vietnam
- Feb 04, 1972
- Last Thai contingent departs South Vietnam
- Feb 05, 1960
- South Vietnam requests more support
- Feb 05, 1975
- North Vietnamese begin preparations for offensive
- Feb 06, 1966
- Johnson meets with South Vietnamese Premier
- Feb 06, 1973
- ICCS take up positions
- Feb 07, 1965
- U.S. jets conduct retaliatory raids
- Feb 07, 1971
- Operation Dewey Canyon II ends
- Feb 08, 1962
- MACV established
- Feb 08, 1971
- Operation Lam Son 719 begins
- Feb 09, 1965
- U.S. sends first combat troops to South Vietnam
- Feb 09, 1972
- USS Constellation arrives off coast of Vietnam.
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