Explaining History

Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam


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At the start of his second term in office Nixon saw an opportunity in the return of American POWs in Vietnam to present a positive and patriotic narrative at the end of America's most divisive conflict since the American Civil War over a century earlier.


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Explaining HistoryBy Nick Shepley

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