Examine President Nixon's threefold plan to unilaterally de-escalate the Vietnam War

NARRATOR: While continuing to negotiate with the stubborn North Vietnamese, President Nixon put into action a three-part plan to unilaterally de-escalate the war. First he announced a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. Second, the war would be "Vietnamized"; that is, as American forces withdrew from the fighting, South Vietnamese forces would replace them. And third, to reduce American casualties, the strategy of "search and destroy" would be replaced, and Americans would fight only when threatened or attacked by the enemy.