A game of basketball is made up of four quarters, each ten (or in the National Basketball Association 12,) minutes long. At the start of each quarter the team who has the possession arrow pointing towards their hoop gets the ball. Then the arrow is switched, and the next team gets the ball next quarter.
Ending the Vietnam War, 1969â1973. 1  President Richard M. Nixon assumed responsibility for the Vietnam War as he swore the oath of office on January 20, 1969. He knew that ending this war honorably was essential to his success in the presidency.
in the 1968 election republican richard nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in vietnam but in fact it took him five years to disengage the united states from vietnamindeed richard nixon presided over as many years of war in indochina as did johnsonn the 1968 election republican richard nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in vietnam but in fact it took him five years to disengage the united states from vietnam