ABSTRACT
Shortly after the South Vietnamese soldiers had come reeling back from their ill-fated Laotian incursion, Nixon instructed Henry Kissinger to offer Hanoi some new proposals in Paris. The air war against North Vietnam, Nixon also ordered air attacks against the invading North Vietnamese forces along their northern, central, and southern fronts in South Vietnam. While Tho and Kissinger negotiated, President Nixon escalated the air war against North Vietnam. Nixon sent no warning or ultimatum to Hanoi, nor did he go on television to tell the American public why it was necessary to renew the air war against North Vietnam. In a speech to the world President Nixon declared that the agreement had achieved America's objectives of 'peace with honor' and that it had the full support of South Vietnam's president Nguyen Van Thieu. It showed President Nixon and Mrs. Johnson watching the casket carrying the lifeless body of the late president approaching the capitol.
