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In ten pages this paper examines the lying accusations against the administration of President Richard M. Nixon regarding its secret bombing missions during the Vietnam War and considers the concept of ‘need to know’ as well as whether upholding the First Amendment should come at the cost of compromising national security. Nine sources are listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG61_TGnixviet.rtf
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years of patient and prolonged diplomacy" - Richard M. Nixon, January 20, 1969 (as cited in Evans & Novak, 1971, p. 75).
Richard Nixon promised an impatient and Vietnam War-weary America peace during his presidential campaign, but discovered the situation was far more complex than he had envisioned. The Vietnam War
was not Nixons war but in the court of public opinion, it became his war to win or lose. At the time of Nixons inauguration, there were approximately a
half-million U.S. troops in Vietnam, and Americans were getting restless for resolution (Genovese, 1990). The war in Southeast Asia had sparked another war on the domestic front, generating student
protests and inspiring a counterculture hippie movement. President Nixon had a theoretical Grand Design for peace that included the short-term goal of ending the protracted war "with honor" and
establishing a long-term peaceful democracy (Genovese, 1990, p. 115). But the young administration found that this Grand Design worked better in theory than it did in practice. The
Vietnam War would not simply go away because the American public wanted it to. The North Vietnamese were not going to admit defeat unless they were forced to do
so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions would have to be initiated to force the Vietcong into surrendering. Nixon
knew this would not meet with public approval, and yet in order to accomplish the countrys objectives and in the matter of national security, his administration would have to pursue
this dramatic course in a controversial manner, with information released only on a need to know basis. From the day Nixon took office, his presidency was pitted against the
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