Nixon Politics

Nixon's Politics

Nixon wanted to accomplish peace and honor during the Vietnam War. When his time ended as President his goal had not been accomplished. To advance peace talks he withdrew American troops from Vietnam. The American media looked at this as if the war was ending. The Nixon doctrine was announced in a press conference in Guam by the US President Nixon himself. Nixon applied this doctrine directly to Vietnam. Nixon's doctrine consisted of three tenets. The US would honor all of its treaty agreements and would provide a shield if a nuclear power threatened an ally or a country in the US thought would be harmful to its national security, and lastly the US would provide military and economic supplies to different countries under treaty agreements. Nixon promised during his campaign that he would try to end the war. The Paris Peace talks with North Vietnam did not go as planned, so Nixon decided to make it a bigger deal by bombing the National Liberation Front bases in Cambodia. Nixon then decided to keep the information about these raids a secret. During Nixon's presidential election campaign in 1968, he claimed that he had a secret plan to get the United States out of the Vietnam War. It turned out that his plan was a work in progress. Over time, Nixon was the one who developed a policy of Vietnamization to force the South Vietnamese to take responsibility for their future, so that the U.S. could gracefully exit the war zone