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Entering the executive office in 1969, Richard Milhaus Nixon would have to "pick up the slack" of his predecessor Lyndon Johnson who had left office while the Vietnam War was still waging on. Expected to be the "peaceful-president", Nixon was visualized by many Americans as being the one who would put an end to the war in Southeast Asia and bring American troops home. With Henry A. Kissinger as his most trusted foreign policy adviser, Nixon redefined the American role in the world, suggesting limits to U.S. resources and commitments. Therefore, Nixon and Kissinger set out to end the war "honorably", whereby this meant that total withdrawal from Vietnam could not, in Nixon's eyes, be an immediate option. Nixon felt that this would be a total abandonment of the South Vietnamese who had "counted" on American aid in defending the South. Yet certain questions arise that in what affect would immediate withdrawal really have on the south? Also Nixon and Kissinger had their eyes on Moscow and China. According to Herring, they felt that they must extricate the United States from the war in a manner that would uphold US credibility with friends and foes alike. Nixon would try a number of different strategies during his term in atte
The bombing in Cambodia evidently did nothing in the overall Vietnam War but devastate a neutral country. Public opinion of President Nixon began to decline. Though he had ordered the withdrawal of a number of US forces from Vietnam, his peace-talks were going nowhere and the public was becoming furious of the time allotment. Yet Nixon would remain strong to the point that Vietnam was an area which the US had an important role in. But what role was this? Was keeping Communism out of South Vietnam top priority? Kissinger expressed his stand as: " I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point." He and Nixon would remain determined to keep South Vietnam from being defeated. Nixon hoping to save face and mobilize American opinion behind him, initiated Johnson's previous policy of "Vietnamization". The belief was that if the US backed South Vietnam through economic aid as well as militarily ( in this case meaning the training of South Vietnamese soldiers), the Saigon government in time would be able to resist a Communist takeover from the North. Nixon sent the message to the American public that this would ultimately reduce American casualties and help the South Vietnamese government establish a self-sustained military. The
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