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The anti-war movement
Although very few people supported the war in indochina, president Richard Nixon thought that withdrawing the troops would make the United States appear to be weak. As a result, instead of ending the war, Nixon and his aides devised a few ways to make it more satisfactory, some examples are limiting the draft, and shifting the load of combat onto South Vietnamese soldiers. At first this idea seemed to work, however, when the U.S. bombed Cambodia hundreds of thousands of protestors clogged city streets and shut down college campuses. Members of Congress attempted to limit the president’s power by revoking the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing the use of military force in Southeast Asia, but Nixon simply ignored them. Even when The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, which called the government’s justifications for war into question, the bloody and never ending war continued. American troops did not completely get withdrawn until 1973.