{"id":3702,"date":"1970-02-03T05:17:53","date_gmt":"1970-02-03T05:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.dialectzone.org\/?p=3702"},"modified":"1970-02-03T05:17:53","modified_gmt":"1970-02-03T05:17:53","slug":"senate-foreign-relations-committee-opens-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/senate-foreign-relations-committee-opens-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Foreign Relations Committee Opens Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Nixon\u2019s program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a \u201cgreat public relations success.\u201d Taking exception with Senator Goodell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Nixon\u2019s program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a \u201cgreat public relations success.\u201d Taking exception with Senator Goodell\u2019s assessment, Senators Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vietnam-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}