Like most media myths, the one about Richard Nixon’s “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War makes for a delicious tale.
It’s engaging, reasonably plausible, and fitting, given that the purported source is Nixon.
But it is, quite simply, erroneous — a pledge Nixon never made.
The anecdote is irresistible, though, given how it fairly oozes cynicism. Salon offered it up today in a tedious and predictable screed about Donald Trump, whom it called “a thermonuclear-enabled bully in the White House.”
Salon’s essay invoked the 1968 presidential campaign, declaring that was “when voters flocked to Richard Nixon because they believed him when he said he had ‘a secret plan’ to end the war in Vietnam. Surprise! The secret plan was several more years of war, featuring the use of napalm against civilian populations and the…
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