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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Snack, Dessert, Dinner, Supper: The Paris Peace Accords

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Nixon's first bombing campaigns had the names of mealtimes which seem to also correspond with the years of his first term: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972. In this episode we look at Nixon, Kissinger and the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War. In addition to providing some additional context for the Saigon 1975 situation so much in the news today, we revisit whether the accord was a sham peace or a true deal. The deal left hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in South Vietnam as U.S. troops exited. Could a better deal have been etched? Or could the same deal have been made sooner. And what about those leopard spots? The great debate over the negotiating table? and the dingy carpet? All this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There must have been something that Richard Nixon admired about Woodrow Wilson because he took his desk.

0:41.0

He had used the Wilson desk as vice president in his EOB office next to the White House.

0:47.0

Wilson had said, men of ordinary physique and discretion cannot be presidents and live.

0:54.0

If the strain cannot be relieved.

0:57.0

It's not shocking that Richard Nixon felt commonality.

1:01.0

Wilson was the symbol of America in the world.

1:05.0

And for somebody's Nixon's age, it was the symbol of an America that didn't shrink from the world, a powerful one.

1:12.0

The funny thing is that as a White House note indicates, later research indicated that the desk had not been used by Woodrow Wilson,

1:21.0

it was the desk of Henry Wilson VP under Ulysses Grant.

1:26.0

In material, if he knew the fact, he and his desk would up end foreign policy,

1:31.0

with the cards that he had been dealt as president to close election, a divided country, an unpopular war,

1:36.0

a peace process, an uneasy one, trying to end that war.

1:41.0

He had plans and he had a secretary of state, William Rogers, to execute those plans as normal in a presidency.

1:49.0

It's got to be a few weeks ago, until it's the end of January.

1:54.0

You might touch up publicly on your top plan and put it before that, and it's a new plan.

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