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Your Essay, "Fluctuations on the Presidential Exchange" [Nov. 9], neglected to give Richard Nixon credit for bringing the struggle in Viet Nam to a halt...
Most Presidents do not fully understand the exhilaration in waging peace until at last they try it. Take Richard Nixon, who found that playing global diplomat was a fine way for a politician to turn almost magically into a statesman. He got a Viet Nam ceasefire, made friends with mainland China, and signed an arms limitation agreement with the Soviets, all within a year. In a life of fighting one damn thing after another, he never had such a good time...
...swashbuckler in khaki, jetting secretly into Viet Nam, summoning his commanders, sending off the bombers, riding silently past the lines of lean young men fresh out of foxholes. But it was a melancholy experience, not at all like the movies. Speeding back to the U.S. after his Viet Nam visit, Johnson was a deeply troubled man. He had found out that...
...people who marched through Amsterdam last weekend showed dramatically, the movement draws its strength from a broad cross section of society, much as the U.S. anti-Viet Nam protests did: housewives, professionals, academics, clerics and union members. "Today's situation is probably more serious than the crises and friction we've had in the alliance during the past 30 years," says
...They know that we have enough to kill and be killed a hundred times over again. Their historic experience in this century?unlike America's until Viet Nam?has not been the triumphant use of power but the experience of brute and futile power, blindly spent and blindly worshiped." Even in France, where pacifist sentiment is far less widespread than in other European countries, 63% of those polled consider a war in Europe "imaginable," and 30% thought it could occur in the next five years. hese fears have emerged at a particularly crucial moment. For the first time in NATO...