I chose this topic for my thesis because I have always been fascinated by the Vietnam War itself. I remember that the first thing that struck me was the length of this conflict. The first “official” American military victim was Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. in 1956. He was a military advisor, training South Vietnamese pilots. The last American soldiers died in 1975. And the US never won the war. One of the main reasons was that it never declared war in the first place. The Vietnam War was the result of different presidential policies, from Containment to Assistance to Intervention to Vietnamization. However, I decided to focus on the problem of Vietnamization. This doctrine was created by President Eisenhower and revived by Richard Nixon who formally acknowledged that the US has to disengage from the war. But his actions told a different story. He spread the war and bombing to Laos and Cambodia, inflicting massive civilian casualties in a war that was already widely considered to be pointless. Nixon promised what most people and congressmen wanted to hear; a graceful exit, and a strategic victory by “enabling South Vietnam” to defend itself. But it was never going to happen. The most possible goal of Nixon was to keep the war going until he can pass it down to the next president. Fortunately, a handful of senators from the Committee of Foreign Relations managed to form an opposition in the legislative branch. My main goal was to present the senate hearings of 1971 chaired by Senator Fulbright. This series of hearings show the biggest problems of the Nixon administration’s attitude towards the war. I dedicate this work to the victims of the war, military or civilian, and to the congressmen who tried to wake up the legislation from its apathy—especially to former senator and vice president Walter F. Mondale, who passed away on April 19, 2021, only a couple days before I finished my thesis.