Vietnam War: As part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnamization">Vietnamization</a>, U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.