Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
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 Nixons program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a great public relations success.Taking exception with Senator Goodells 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.
