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...Your article on "Nixon s Blitz" was anti-American. You say that Nixon broke off the peace talks in anger. You failed to say that he brought home more than 500 000 troops from this war that he inherited. You speak of.our escalation, but you say nothing of Hanoi's invasion of South Viet...
...most troubling aspects of the Nixon blitz-quite apart from the death inflicted on its victims-was that his show of overweening force increased the U.S. investment in lives, prisoners and prestige. This happened just at a point when the public mind believed that that investment was about to be liquidated. The President, who surely wants the war over as much as any American, seemed for a time to be raising his own ante, apparently making it more difficult for the U.S. to extricate itself from Southeast Asia. One State Department dissenter from the bombing observed gloomily early last week...
Implicit in the mood is the conviction that should he be "diddled" again in Paris, yet another blitz will be ordered. If Hanoi does not resume the talks in the proper vein, says a source close to the President, "he'll turn it up full blast again." The U.S. expects Hanoi in particular...
...many feared, or even result in the cancellation of the Moscow summit. Rather, they are now credited with nudging the North Vietnamese toward the bargaining table. Now the new bombing has succeeded in getting the talks scheduled again. Certainly, the Russians and the Chinese took the blitz on Hanoi and Haiphong with a measure of resigned acceptance...
...Administration clearly does not think so, by its own rationale for starting -and stopping-the blitz against North Viet Nam. Says Kissinger, once burned and choosing his words with care: "We expect to have serious negotiations and have some reason to believe we will have serious negotiations...