A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber takes off.Wired has published an in depth article titled The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam that looks at the Nixon administration's plan to instill fear into Moscow via 18 B-52s loaded with nukes.
It was October1969 and the Nixon-Kissinger duo wanted to showcase the new Nixon Doctrine. The maneuver highlights Nixon's unique (Nixon-in-China style) foreign policy that shaped much of the late 20th century. I am pleasantly surprised to see a well written and researched Nixon article in a technology periodical like Wired.
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I'm always fascinated by Nixon supporters, and the reasons why people are supportive of his "realpolitik" Cold War approach in his foreign policies.
In particular, your comment:
"The maneuver highlights Nixon's unique (Nixon-in-China style) foreign policy that shaped much of the late 20th century."
I don't really understand what it is that you are praising. Perhaps you could elaborate?
I was also curious as to the origins of your blog title, "Nixon was framed!" Certainly an attention getting hook, heheh. To what in particular, if anything, are you referring? Media analysis of Nixon's "legacy"? If so, surely you are aware that the contemporary media consensus portrays Nixon as a loyal, well-meaning American who, against his better judgement, allowed his minions to go too far on his behalf.
The prevailing consensus portrays Nixon as a great, but flawed and misunderstood, President whose personal failings interfered with his foreign policy initiatives.
Nixon has been rehabilitated in the historical record, it would seem, so what is it to which you refer in the "framing" of Nixon?
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