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Article: Nixon's Vietnam War.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2001
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Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xvi, 495. $39.95.)
The Vietnam War was the first defeat of the United States abroad, even at the zenith of its power. Richard Nixon was the president who set America's strategy to end the war, if not in victory, then with honor, but he ended up having to re-envision America's role as a preeminent power.
Jeffrey Kimball has written a dramatic, comprehensive history of Nixon's Vietnam War. Nixon's involvement with Vietnam began in the early 1950s as he developed a Cold War worldview of confronting the Soviet Union, China, and communist expansion. As vice-president in ...