Did Nixon end the Vietnam War?

Question

I read it was Ford. I also read Nicon called himself peacemaker.

Answer 1

Nixon had this big thing about ending the war with "PEACE WITH HONOR". Which meant he wanted to end it, but how could he look good to Americans and the world.??
Well, he didn't have a chance to end it. In his second term he was involved in 'Watergate' and he resigned in humiliation. Nixon had 5 years to stop the war, but didn't.
The north Vietnamese finally captured HANOI and all the troops and South Vietnamese evacuated like crazy.
The war coudn't continue.. it just stopped....(during Ford's term)
Later, North and South Vietnam re-united by themselves and now they are a big customer and supplier to the USA.
Nixon... was a jerk.... I was there the whole time. (not Nam)

YES.. Nixon went to China and 'opened it'. In hindsight, that would have happened anyway, no matter who had gone.

YES.. give me as many thumbs down as you like. I got enough of them from the older generation as I protested the war and Nixon 1968-72. It was the AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF ANTI-war sentiment that ended the war, not even Ford ever claimed the credit. Who among the answerers here voted in 1968 and 72?

Answer 2

Damn. The Liberals are STILL lying about him? Look at the year Vietnam ended. Who had more time to get the job done? Nixon really was a great man, but he was so hated by the usual suspects that they apparently STILL have to lie about him. Nixon also reopened China to the West. Betcha they don't let that slip either!

Oh, and FYI, Nixon didn't make claims like modern presidents. History made that judgement.

Jeez! One little mistake, and no one EVER forgives or forgets!

Answer 3

Nixon set into motion the events that ultimately led to the end of the Vietnam war. Ford finished what Nixon started. It was a concerted effort.

Answer 4

It's one of the worst debacles in US military history if you look at the panic and humanitarian disaster it turned into, Nixon wanted to withdraw, that's why he went to China, Bejing. Ford is responsible for the way the "withdraw" happened, (all out runaway) and the hundreds of thousand of "collaborators" who had worked with the US for a democracy that got slaughtered in the streets by the VC. Not mentioned is the democrats had just taken over congress, with the "mandate" to get us out of Vietnam, but as bloody and disgraceful as things turned they certainly wanted no credit, yet as President and commander in chief, the chaos was truly his fault. But the revisionists want us to think Nixon was evil, after all he lied to cover up a bungled attempt by subordinates to wiretap a phone in DNC headquarters who foolishly thought proving a call girl ring ("creative financing"?) from the Watergate would influence voters. People who knew his rage claimed he was not aware of this until after the fact, and thought they had done it to make him look bad. It's not like things Clinton did he was directly responsible for, but they needed a scapegoat to make Clinton look good, there was a great deal of "artistic license" in the "Nixon" movie, names and dates were real, the rest? And making Ford look good meant taking this positive step towards peace Nixon made (we had never talked with communist China before, and as they are getting ready to be #1 in the world, this does matter, because if(?) they were still hostile to us, we could have already been at war, and they have the tactical missile ability to hit us from all directions) away from Nixon and lauding Ford as a hero. I'm not saying Ford was a bad person, he just never did much of anything other than launch comedian Chevy Chase's career. And now golf courses are safe again.

Answer 5

Nixon had a chance to end the war during his first term in office, but didn't.
He ran for re-election on a platform that included "Peace with Honor"...But again he failed to finish the war.
The war for America ended during the Ford administration.

Both Nixon and Henry Kissinger had an agenda that betrayed the American and Vietnamese people. Many good americans died because Nixon and Kissenger lied.

Today we have a president who is listening to the same Henry Kissenger and who is standing by the same war plan today that he did in the Vietnam era. Kissinger failed then and he will fail us now.

Answer 6

The U.S. was forced out of Vietnam when Congress finally did its Constitutional duty and cut off funds for this savage, undeclared war which left c. 50,000 U.S. dead and destroyed the lives of more than a million Vietnamese, and millions of Cambodians & Loatians .

The Cambodians and Loations were slaughtered due to Nixon's illegal bombing of Cambodia & Loas. In Cambodia, Nixon's massive bombings eliminated the moderate government and ushered in Pol Pot and his genocide which complimented U.S. genocide.

Ultimately, it was the resistance of the people Vietnam which ended the war by making the continuation of U.S. aggression too costly in dollars and the ability of the U.S. Army to function.

The parallels to the illegal, undeclared war against Iraq are stricking:

1) the WMD claim in Iraq and the "Gulf of Tonkin" claim in Vietnam accelerated the respective wars, but are now acknowledged to be based on lies.

2) A supine Congress illegally punted, refused to declare war or demand peace in either case until years of war.

3) The vast majority of deaths and injuries were inflicted on civilians by U.S. tactics that constitute grave violations of International Law to which the U.S. is Constitutionally bound (article 6, section 2).

4) The premises of the both wars were based on lies that the media eagerly sold to the U.S. public by the government and its
supine allies, the mass media.

Answer 7

No. The Vietnamese people did.

Answer 8

i think it was ford if i'am not wrong

Answer 9

NO.