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Settlement seems close VS Nixon stalls
Nixon stalls as an agreement before election could be neg for results hoped not to seem to succumb to anti-war protestors -
Christmas bombing
Sans exaltation US bomb and mined Haiphong = 1000 Vietnamese casualties and 93 American -
Settlement
Nixon asserts to Thieu that he'll sign either way:
Ceasefire excluding Laos/ Cambodia
Exchange POW's
Thieu remains in power committee for National Reconciliation was established to oversee free elections
Nixon secretly promised aid to Hanoi for reconstruction Peace w/ Honour?
Bombed Cambodia until AUG 1973
NV invaded S by 1975 US stand by
Resigns 1974 over Watergate scandal