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Like many self-made Texans he preferred the frontal assault to the indirect maneuver. He was convinced that the best way to transcend the malaise of Viet Nam was for our leaders to be visibly engaged in a tough defense of the American interest. He demonstrated immediately that the notorious Nixon "Palace Guard," which forced Cabinet members to deal with the President through White House assistants, could not survive the challenge of a determined Cabinet member. He simply ran over them on international economic policy. If he needed White House guidance, he simply crossed the street from the Treasury...
...most serious obstacles to successful truce making between the two Communist powers, however, seemed highly contemporary. One week before the Moscow talks, with obvious support from the Soviet Union, Viet Nam lashed out with a series of attacks in Cambodia, where troops loyal to deposed Premier Pol Pot, backed by China, have been carrying on a stubborn insurgency...
...scale "dry season" offense aimed at wiping out Pol Pot's force of 30,000 guerrillas once and for all. If so, it was feared that China might take direct action in defense of Pol Pot, and even perhaps launch another "punitive" attack like its massive invasion of Viet Nam last February. A Chinese military operation on that scale would again raise the risk of direct Soviet intervention...
...policies abroad. He tells for the first time how during secret negotiations in Paris in April 1970-before the U.S. invaded the North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia-he proposed that Cambodia's neutrality be guaranteed and that an international conference on the subject be convened. North Viet Nam's representative, Le Duc Tho, bluntly spurned the proposal, claiming that Hanoi expected to hold sway over all of Indochina some...
...accompanied every military move in Indochina, the efforts to end the war and how they were thwarted by Hanoi's rigid refusal for nearly four years to accept a settlement that would amount to anything less than a sellout of Saigon, the rationale behind the mining of North Viet Nam's ports and the Christmas bombing of 1972, why he declared "peace is at hand" on the eve of Nixon's reelection, his attempts to build bridges to dissident students and professors, the acid exchanges with South Viet Nam's leaders as a peace treaty drew...