JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Nixon, who you categorize as slimey, opened access to Red China and
ended the Viet Nam war, yet he is villified for trying to jack with
the Democrats. Oh well.

Maybe I was hallucinating, but I seem to recall our embassy staff
being hustled off a rooftop in a helicopter. Nixon had no choice but
to end the war.

You don't remember too well.

Nixon ended the war with a peace treaty (in 1973 which earned Nobel Prizes
for Kissinger and the North Vietnam representative). Our embassy in Viet Nam
was evacuated, and Saigon fell, on April 30, 1975, nine months into
President Ford's administration. Most believe South Vietnam fell because the
Democrats passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974 which cut off all
funding to support the South and effectively nullified the peace agreement
worked out by Nixon.


There are idiots in some newsgroups who think you can go forward
knowing nothing about history. This is why we failed in Vietnam, why
we will fail in Iraq, and why we are on the cusp of either failing or
succeeding in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Knowing "nothing" about history can be fixed. What cannot be fixed is
knowing something that is wrong.