Read the passage from a speech on Vietnam given by President Mixon in 1969 "For the future of peace, decipitate withdrawal would thus be a disaster of immense magnitude -A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allied and lets down its friends. -Our defeat and humiliation in South Vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the counclis of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peact in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in the Western Hemisphere __ For these reasons, I rejected the recommendation that I should end the war by immediately withdrawing all of our forces - President Richard Nixon Address to the nation Nov, 3,1969 What foreign policy direction does the President say the United States should follow? The US should withdraw its military forces from Vietnam as quickly as is possible The US should not withdraw from Vietnam, because that would cause problems elsewhere The US should turn its attention from Vietnam to the Middle East Berin, and the Western Hemisphere

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Read the passage from a speech on Vietnam given by President Mixon in 1969 "For the future of peace, decipitate withdrawal would thus be a disaster of immense magnitude -A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allied and lets down its friends. -Our defeat and humiliation in South Vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the counclis of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peact in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in the Western Hemisphere __ For these reasons, I rejected the recommendation that I should end the war by immediately withdrawing all of our forces - President Richard Nixon Address to the nation Nov, 3,1969 What foreign policy direction does the President say the United States should follow? The US should withdraw its military forces from Vietnam as quickly as is possible The US should not withdraw from Vietnam, because that would cause problems elsewhere The US should turn its attention from Vietnam to the Middle East Berin, and the Western Hemisphere

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The correct answer is: **The US should not withdraw from Vietnam because that would cause problems elsewhere.**Nixon argues that a rapid withdrawal from Vietnam would be a "disaster" and would embolden other nations with "goals of world conquest." He specifically mentions concerns about the Middle East, Berlin, and the Western Hemisphere as areas that would be destabilized by a US defeat in Vietnam. This directly supports the idea that he believed the US should maintain its presence in Vietnam to prevent further global issues.

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