advertisement

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
 
70th Anniversary
'30s&'40s '50s '60s '70s '80s '90s Today
Photo Essays Cover Galley Best of the Decade Home
70th Anniversary
Cover Gallery
Feb. 5, 1973
previousnext
image
Just days after the cease-fire agreement is signed in Paris, U.S.News & World Report looked at the impact of peace in Vietnam. "One senator said, 'There wasn't a dry eye in the house' when Mr. Nixon disclosed the cease-fire terms to congressional leaders. Yet the world was not engulfed by an emotional tidal wave. Agreement to silence the weapons of war on Jan. 27, 1973, was what Americans had been awaiting for more than a decade and to many the terms were anticlimactic."

advertisement

advertisement

advertisement








Copyright © 2007 U.S. News & World Report, L.P. All rights reserved.
Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy.
Subscribe | Text Index | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Contact U.S. News | Advertise