In a speech before 100,000 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, President of France and urges the U.S. government to pull its troops out of Southeast Asia.
De Gaulle said that negotiations toward a settlement of the war could begin as soon as the United States committed to withdrawing its troops by a certain date. He and Prince Norodom Sihanouk signed a declaration calling for noninterference in the Indochinese peninsula by foreign nations. Three days later, Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy on NBC-TV鈥檚 Meet The Press rejected de Gaulle鈥檚 proposal and said that the United States intended to withdraw its forces when 鈥渢he North Vietnamese get out.鈥 During the same speech, he also revealed that the United States now had 25,000 military people in Thailand, principally for air force operations.
