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Nixon talked of Henry Kissinger at length, and at times seemed to be trying to de-emphasize his role in the Nixon Administration. Kissinger, suggests Nixon, was "more emotional" than himself. By Nixon's account, Kissinger favored the invasion of Cambodia in April 1970, but was upset at the adverse domestic reaction, especially after the Kent State shootings. Kissinger, said Nixon, told him that Cambodia "could have been a mistake. And I said, 'Henry, we've done it.' I said, 'Remember Lot's wife. Never look back.' " Frost asked Nixon whether Kissinger ever...
...compound these crimes, Kissinger lied to both the American people and the United States Congress. Many of these operations were in violation of the expressed will of Congress; they were kept secret. Prior to the widening of the war into Cambodia, the Kissinger-Nixon administration pursued a policy of heavy bombardment of supposed Communist base areas in Cambodia and Laos. When international press reports began to filter in, Kissinger lied in response to questions. When news of the bombing was finally leaked by persons on the National Security Council staff, Kissinger responded by tapping the phones of several staff members...
...here. Surely Kissinger's actions as regards American intervention in the Viet Nam War must rank among his worst crimes. While he inherited rather than initiated American involvement, he continued to prosecute it for five long and bloody years; while Kissinger talked of peace, the war was widened to Cambodia and Laos. The heaviest and most destructive bombing of the war occurred while Kissinger talked peace. Some of the largest and most destructive land operations involving the heaviest casualties to civilians occurred after 1968, while Kissinger talked peace. In violation of international law and treaties to which...
Incursions into Laos and Cambodia were kept secret; when rumors started they were denied; finally, when it could be hidden no longer, it was admitted to the American people. The American people were the only ones who were kept in the dark. Those being attacked knew; the Russians and Chinese knew; it was the American people and the Congress who did not know...
This is why we should hate Richard Nixon--not for Watergate, although that is reason enough--but for what he represents to us, for his whole twisted way of thinking. For Kent State, for Chile, for the Christmas bombing and Bach Mai Hospital, for Cambodia, for the cynical Southern strategy and the emasculation of civil rights legislation--for all this, and much more...