Phil David was 17 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and he quickly became a squad leader while serving in Vietnam.

But in an effort to secure “peace with honor,” as Nixon put it, the war continued for another five years of incalculable pain, loss and suffering. And for what?

Over 2,000 American soldiers died between the day in 1971 when Nixon and his secretary of state dismissed the costs in human lives in favor of delaying “peace with honor” till post-election.

As Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense said, the appearance of the Chinese honor guard is a symbol of “enduring mutual trust and solidarity”.

Kissinger slips at one point, saying the "peace with honor" doctrine was also Nixon’s way of appeasing the Right.

The larger goals of Nixon’s foreign policies were to create a detente with the Soviet Union while befriending China to allow a “ peace with honor ” in Vietnam that would hold beyond the ...

“Peace with honor” was a phrase President Richard Nixon emphasized in an announcement to end the United States’ direct involvement with the war in Vietnam. Throughout the 1968 presidential ...

“Peace with honor” was a phrase President Richard Nixon emphasized in an announcement to end the United States’ direct involvement with the war in Vietnam. Throughout the 1968 presidential ...

Mr. Bannon argues the president’s mistake would be failing to make a clean break with Kyiv. This, he says, is how Richard Nixon got sucked into Vietnam and transformed it from Lyndon Johnson’s ...

The Largest White House Party Ever Was in Honor of Returning Vietnam POWs Prisoners held by North Vietnam returning to the United States aboard a C-141 Starlifter during Operation Homecoming.

After he won, Nixon promised to end the war and achieve “peace with honor.” However, presidential historian Ken Hughes, who researched Nixon’s tape recordings, found that Nixon delayed ...

The US president, Richard Nixon, appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam.