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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (141087)	9/30/2005 12:52:29 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793976

With respect to Nixon, the documentary made the point that while Nixon had Kissinger negotiating with the North Vietnamese over an end to the war, he was also secretly sending messages to the North Vietnamese that he was willing to ramp up to escalate the war and possibly to use nukes. Nixon had to do that in order to get and keep the NV at the peace table.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (141087)	9/30/2005 2:41:11 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793976

With respect to Nixon, the documentary made the point that while Nixon had Kissinger negotiating with the North Vietnamese over an end to the war, he was also secretly sending messages to the North Vietnamese that he was willing to ramp up to escalate the war and possibly to use nukes. I've read that. I think it was in both Nixon's and Kissinger's own books about this period. Johnson did the same thing. In that particular post I didn't state my point about Nixon's conservative approach to foreign policy well. I made the point much clearer in a later post to Bill in which I argued Nixon was a realist, not an early neocon, when it came foreign policy, albeit a conservative incarnation. I think but clearly don't know, as neither does Bill, that Nixon would have figured he had bigger fish to fry and less political costs to pay.