Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon then and there decided upon the mining of North Vietnamese ports. He would speak to the nation on Monday evening, May 8. He would convene the National Security Council on Monday morning...
...Nixon Adviser H.R. Haldeman strongly opposed our cancellation of the summit. It would damage the President by making him appear impulsive. Nixon suggested that Haldeman and I solicit Treasury Secretary John Connally's views...
...Nixon's Gamble...
...deputy, Alexander Haig, Haldeman and I met with Nixon in his hideaway in the Executive Office Building. The President was in good form, calm and analytical. The only symptom of his excitement was that instead of slouching in an easy chair as usual, he was pacing up and down, gesticulating with a pipe on which he was occasionally puffing, something I had never previously seen him do. On one level he was playing MacArthur. On another he was steeling himself for a decision on which his political future would depend...
...finest hours of Nixon's presidency. He could have taken the advice of his commander in the field, supported by his Secretary of Defense, and concentrated on the battle in South Viet Nam. He could have temporized, which is what most leaders do, and then blamed the collapse of South Viet Nam on events running out of control. He could have concentrated on the summit and used it to obscure the failure of his Viet Nam policy. Nixon did none of these. In an election year, he risked his political future on a course most of his Cabinet colleagues...