Having been overwhelmingly reelected to a second term, President Richard Nixon on this day in 1972 ordered the start of a massive, two-week ...
Infuriated, President Nixon ordered plans drawn up for retaliatory bombings of North Vietnam. Linebacker II was the result. Beginning on December 18, ...
crack the hell out of them…” The Nixon administration secretly ordered more bombings, without the consent of Congress. Air raids, codenamed Lunch, Snack, ...
Following months of secret U.S. bombings on Communist bases,
A few weeks before ordering an escalation of the Vietnam War, President Nixon matter-of-factly raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb.
Episode 9: Crossing into Cambodia Nixon's Cambodian campaign fans antiwar ... May 9, 1972: Nixon orders Operation Linebacker I bombing.
Finally, in order to break the deadlock, on December 14 Nixon ordered massive B–52 attacks on the North Vietnamese heartland—the “Christmas Bombing.” ...
Enhancing the destruction, in April 1970, President Nixon ordered United States ...
Abrams claimed to Nixon that the regions of eastern Cambodia to be bombed were
According to newly revealed government documents, Nixon is even believed to have ordered nuclear bombers to be put on standby for an ...