Oct 22, 2015 | News, Vietnam
Bob Woodward’s charge in his new book The Last of the President’s Men that President Nixon knew that the bombing of Laos and North Vietnam in the early 1970s “was not working” and “defended and intensified it in order to advance his re-election prospects” is based...
Apr 9, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
At the onset of 1969, the Nixon administration had yet to form a definitive plan to bring peace to Vietnam, largely as a result of the North Vietnamese’s continued intransigence and a time period occupied by necessary fact gathering and policy option studies....
Apr 2, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Today the Selective Service system is on stand-by. Every male in America between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service System, but never has any individual since the Vietnam War era been conscripted into service. The first and last experience...
Feb 20, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon meeting with future Nobel Laureate Dr. Milton Friedman, distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and the leading voice of the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force. On February 21st, 1970, the Gates...
Feb 5, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
John Negroponte, pictured on the far right, prepares briefing material for Henry Kissinger en route to Paris for the peace signings. The year 1970 saw President Nixon make some profound decisions regarding United States operations in Vietnam in addition to some real...
Dec 5, 2014 | Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon TV, Vietnam
On January 23, 1973, President Nixon announced that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the chief North Vietnamese negotiator, had initialed a peace agreement in Paris. A panel of former members of the National Security staff examines the chronology,...
