Yeah, but Nixon inherited the war and was also influenced by the sunk cost fallacy.
Since our country had already invested so many American lives in Vietnam, maybe we should invest a few more?
After all, we must at some point prevail even if the outcome was the same stalemate we won in Korea, although that didn't come to pass in the case of Vietnam.
Nixon did take the war to the North with bombing campaigns and that should arguably have been done years earlier.
At some point, we simply had to exit the quagmire and Nixon and Kissinger made this happen.
It is painful to consider the loss of lives both to us and to the Vietnamese.
I've thought over the past few decades that those in the North and their many supporters in the South saw themselves as nationalists fighting imperialist forces rather than as communists.
To the extent that was true, the indigenous peoples fought our forces with everything they had at vast cost to their own country.