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Nixon suspends bombing of North Vietnam - Oct 25, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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The White House orders a suspension of bombing above the 20th parallel as a signal of U.S. approval of recent North Vietnamese concessions at the secret peace talks in Paris.
According to Nixon administration officials, the principal obstacle to a cease-fire was in Saigon. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu broadcast a denunciation of the cease-fire treaty, calling all peace proposals discussed by Kissinger and Hanoi in Paris unacceptable, and urged his troops to wipe out Communist presence in the South “quickly and mercilessly.”
Thieu feared the peace treaty because it did not address the 160,000 North Vietnamese troops that were currently in South Vietnam. Ultimately, he would sign the accords, but only after repeated promises by President Nixon that he would come to the aid of South Vietnam if the North Vietnamese violated the terms of the agreement. However, the Watergate scandal erupted and Nixon was forced to resign. His successor could not make good Nixon’s promises and the South Vietnamese government fell in 1975.
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According to Nixon administration officials, the principal obstacle to a cease-fire was in Saigon. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu broadcast a denunciation of the cease-fire treaty, calling all peace proposals discussed by Kissinger and Hanoi in Paris unacceptable, and urged his troops to wipe out Communist presence in the South “quickly and mercilessly.”
Thieu feared the peace treaty because it did not address the 160,000 North Vietnamese troops that were currently in South Vietnam. Ultimately, he would sign the accords, but only after repeated promises by President Nixon that he would come to the aid of South Vietnam if the North Vietnamese violated the terms of the agreement. However, the Watergate scandal erupted and Nixon was forced to resign. His successor could not make good Nixon’s promises and the South Vietnamese government fell in 1975.
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Nixon suspends bombing of North Vietnam - Oct 25, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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From a strategic perspective it was sad day when President Nixon suspended the bombing above the 20th parallel which signaled tacit agreement with the North Vietnamese position SP5 Mark Kuzinski. This seemed to be a token of good faith to an untrustworthy group of communist diplomats.
Some things are learned the hard way. This was one of them; but, unfortunately some choose to forget the lessons of the recent past.
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Some things are learned the hard way. This was one of them; but, unfortunately some choose to forget the lessons of the recent past.
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it was a Nice try... he should have carpet bombed the North into a Golfball looking landscape from border to border...
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