Mark Moyar

He also... So Nixon, for a while, he's been trying to sort of cement his legacy as a great diplomat.

And so...

If you look at other diplomatic endeavors, it's actually not all that similar.

Some people get so obsessed with the deal that they just start giving things away just so they can say they struck the deal.

And so what ultimately happens is.

So the South Vietnamese complain.

Then Kissinger goes back to the North Vietnamese and says, well, we kind of need to change what we agreed to because maybe that wasn't such a great idea.

And the North Vietnamese say, well, we're not, you already agreed to this other stuff.

So then Nixon bombs them in what's called the Christmas bombing, very heavy bombing in December of 72.

And Nixon easily thinks, yeah, we're going to,

you know, clobber North Vietnam.

They're going to be hurt for so long and, you know, they won't be able to do anything, at least not for a while.

And we're going to, you know, declare this peace agreement.

And he promises the South Vietnamese that he will protect them if if the North Vietnamese, in fact, do launch another big offensive.

Now, whether he was

going to actually live up to that?

We don't know because he's gone by 74.

The South Vietnamese, you know, basically the peace never really happens.

The South Vietnamese are fighting North Vietnamese and it's going pretty well until about the middle of 74 when the American, the aid cuts by the Congress are taking effect.

So now