CBS Evening News - 1969-03-17
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[0:02] direct from our Newsroom in New York in
[0:04] color this is the CBS Evening News with
[0:07] Walter Cronkite and Eric severeign in
[0:10] Washington Mike Wallace in New York and
[0:13] Norman klubach in Houston Texas
[0:16] good evening during the election
[0:17] campaign President Nixon spoke
[0:20] frequently of a plan unspecified for
[0:22] ending the Vietnam War today Democratic
[0:25] senator George McGovern attacked Nixon's
[0:27] handling of the war and challenged him
[0:29] to unveil his plan but support for the
[0:31] president came from an unexpected
[0:33] quarter Senate Democratic whip Edward
[0:35] Kennedy Kennedy said Nixon has told
[0:38] Congressional leaders that the plan has
[0:39] been put into effect at the Paris peace
[0:42] talks the senator added that Mr Nixon
[0:44] should be given a chance to see if it
[0:46] works the government made his criticism
[0:48] in a senate speech which he later
[0:50] discussed with reporters
[0:52] it appears to me that for the last uh
[0:55] four months since the election more
[0:58] specifically the two months since
[1:00] President Nixon has taken office that
[1:03] the military The Joint Chiefs Ambassador
[1:07] bunker and others have been pressing him
[1:09] very hard to continue a military
[1:12] offensive in the South we've had public
[1:14] predictions from our top military
[1:16] commanders that the war has now turned
[1:19] to coroner that Victory is ahead that
[1:22] the enemy is exhausted and that we if we
[1:25] just keep on the pressure that soon we
[1:28] can score a military decision I think
[1:30] it's in response to that kind of public
[1:33] boasting on the part of our military
[1:35] commanders plus the increased American
[1:38] military operations in the South that
[1:41] you