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The Secretary of Defense said that giving up would mean allowing the Communists to impose "their dark vision on the rest of the world.

"Let there be no doubt: if the United States were to withdraw from Vietnam today the Communists emboldened by their victory would attack us elsewhere in the region and at home in the United States, he said.

"We will win this war. It's a test of wills, and let there be no doubt that is what it is," he said. He told the troops that "generations before you have persevered and prevailed, and they too were engaged in a test of wills."