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John imperio's avatar

I just have a random question about Nixon. I was recently reading that in I believe in 1973 Nixon sold 10 tonnes of wheat to the Soviet Union. And it was later referred to as the “great grain robbery.” My question how did this episode go wrong?

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DENNIS B MURPHY's avatar

I wouldn't give Nixon ANY credit for getting us out of Vietnam. It is well documented that he had the Paris peace talks during LBJ's term undermined. The war kept going until we finally left Saigon in 1975- another 6 to 7 years though combat officially ended for the US military in 1973. More than 21,000 died after Nixon took office - at least 36% of all casualties since 1959!

1969 11,780

1970 6,173

1971 2,414

1972 759

1973 68

1974 1

1975 62

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