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Studies Nixon's role in the war, including his advocacy of intervention in 1953, his struggle to appease all sides, his relationship with Kissinger, and his adoption of the "Madman Theory"--hinting he might use nuclear weapons.
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Focuses exclusively on the US president's direction of the war, based on extensive interviews with principal players and original research in Vietnam. Traces Nixon's advocacy of intervention in the country back to 1953, describes his struggle to appease all political forces, explores his peculiar psychology and curious relationship with Henry Kissinger, and identifies the keystone of his strategy as the Madman Theory by which he hoped to convince the communists that he might become irrational any moment and unleash nuclear weapons. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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