![]() Kissinger discussed plans for “a major assault on Laos,” which he thought would devastate North Vietnam’s military capability. He prefers, instead, a commitment to have them all out by the end of ’72 so that we won’t have to deliver finally until after the elections and therefore can keep our flanks protected.”Īnd another. combat troops “because he feels that if we pull them out by the end of ’71, trouble can start mounting in ’72 that we won’t be able to deal with and which we’ll have to answer for at the elections. ![]() Kissinger opposing an early commitment to withdraw all U.S. Kissinger said the column had pounced “on a single entry in 600 pages” of the diaries to show that “President Nixon’s Vietnam policy was driven by electoral politics.”Ī single entry? A few pages later in the diaries there is another. In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, Mr. Kissinger objected to an early peace initiative because there might be bad results before the 1972 election. Haldeman’s diaries as saying that on Dec. It noted that 20,492 Americans died in Vietnam while he and Richard Nixon made policy on the war, in the years 1969-72. Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State, has taken exception to a recent column of mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that the Open Forum may be the appropriate place to post this today. ![]()
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