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Underlying Nixon's rationale is a fervent if hard-to-prove belief that virtually all the revolutionaries in South Viet Nam were agents of North Viet Nam. He rejects the idea that there was any significant homegrown dissent, any genuine civil war. Yet some of the evidence he adduces indicates the opposite: the fact that North Viet Nam imprisoned erstwhile South Vietnamese guerrillas suggests that these dissidents were viewed as dangerous nationalists. In justifying his claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that...
...liberals and especially the press, whom he collectively accuses of bias, hypocrisy and hoping the Communists would win. He says of the war, "It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." Yet Nixon admits that Watergate and his own unpopularity undercut his appeals for military aid to South Viet...
...pressure on American industry, he points out that the best current customers for U.S. products are industrialized Canada and Japan. In an inspirational final summons to "a peaceful revolution for progress in the Third World," Nixon brings back to mind the far-seeing foreign policy analyst whom Watergate, and Viet Nam, destroyed...
...those bills up on the Hill were his bills. He tried to run the war like he ran Congress, with bluster and threat one minute, humility and doubt the next. He had the documents in his inner coat pocket, votes on his legislation, the latest body count from Viet...
After he sent in the bombers after the Gulf of Tonkin affair, he said, "I figured that if you go for a fellow, you don't just goose him. We hit a base in North Viet Nam with 25 PT boats." But by June 1964 he was cautious. "People urging stronger steps are not aware of the consequences. I don't feel that we should pull out and come home. As far as going north, we know there are 200 million in the Chinese army. If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million...