... State University students following the steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. The protesters left the dormitory town and went down the streets of the City of Kent in the morning on May 2. The City Mayor Leroy Satrom asked Governor James Rhodes to send the National Guard forces to school to suppress the protest after an anonymous student had burned the ROTC building. The confrontation between students and the force had lasted for ... of Vietnam or intervening in the civil war of another country. Other protesters believed that the war purposes were...

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... peace talks stalled repeatedly. Covert dialogue between Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam dragged on with little progress. At home anti-war activist filled the streets. Nixon hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam the summits did little to push the war towards its end. The U.S. entered the talks in 1969 seeking mutual withdrawal and no coalition government [ ] before the first secret meeting with the North, Kissinger met U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge ... have abandoned our prisoners of war, or that would of ended the war f...

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