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Fatal Politics - The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection (Hardcover)
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Fatal Politics - The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection (Hardcover)
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In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of
Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War
negotiations" - Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal
Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon's
reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president's darkest secret.
While publicly Nixon promised to keep American troops in Vietnam
only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, in private
Nixon agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence
advisers that Saigon could never survive without American boots on
the ground. Afraid that a pre-election fall of Saigon would scuttle
his chances of a second term, Nixon put his reelection above the
lives of American soldiers. Postponing the inevitable, he kept
America in the war into the fourth year of his presidency. At the
same time, Nixon negotiated a "decent interval" deal with the
Communists to put a face-saving year or two between his final
withdrawal and Saigon's collapse. If they waited that long, Nixon
secretly assured North Vietnam's chief sponsors in Moscow and
Beijing, the North could conquer the South without any fear that
the United States would intervene to save it. The humiliating
defeat that haunts Americans to this day was built into Nixon's
exit strategy. Worse, the myth that Nixon was winning the war
before Congress "tied his hands" has led policy makers to adapt
tactics from America's final years in Vietnam to the
twenty-first-century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, prolonging
both wars without winning either. Forty years after the fall of
Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon's
secretly recorded Oval Office tapes--the most comprehensive,
accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history,
much of it never transcribed until now-- Fatal Politics tells a
story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how
Americans remember Vietnam. Fatal Politics is also available as a
special e-book that allows the reader to move seamlessly from the
book to transcripts and audio files of these historic
conversations.
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