This was discussed before. In 1969 there were definite plans to nuke the Chinese installations in North Vietnam through which supplies flowed. The size an militancy of the November Moratorium demos caused Nixon to change his mind. Andie knows more about this than I do.
You are of course right in general, but the point about Nixon stands. It would have made no difference in the outcome or in policy if more more leftists had voted for Humphrey in '68 -- but what we did 'in the streets' made a contribution to saving the world.
Carrol
Dennis Perrin wrote:
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> >Nixon .. . refrained from nuking Vietnam -- just because of what
> >we did outside of the elections.
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> >Carrol
>
> Er, ummm, not bloody likely. Nixon (like LBJ before him) didn't need to nuke
> Vietnam, given the utter destruction the USAF was already visiting on that
> country. Indeed, Nixon expanded the war to Laos and Cambodia at a time when
> street protests and antiwar activism were probably at their height. As I.F.
> Stone suggested at the time, Wall Street's antipathy to the money losing war
> had more impact on Nixon than anything else.
>
> Dennis
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