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Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?

18 August 2021

4:13 PM

18 August 2021

4:13 PM

Having worked with former President Richard Nixon during the last years of his life, I’m often asked what his view would be about some present-day issue. Given the rampant comparisons between the calamitous fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban following the Biden administration’s precipitous withdrawal and the disastrous fall of Saigon in 1975, Nixon’s perspective would have been invaluable.

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