Nixon's Ambition

Before Nixon got into office, he already had a plan that would win the war and called his secret strategy "Vietnamization", which stated that the Vietnamese people were not fighting hard enough to win the war. The strategy called for pulling out troops and increasing the air warfare, which pushed the ground warfare onto the ARVN. When Nixon was elected into office, his plan went into effect and took troops out of Vietnam. While the plan was in effect, the Communists party started to take the war into neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos.

As Nixon kept sending bombing runs to push back the Communist Party, the bombing runs started a wave of anti-Nixon rally's all over the United States. Two examples of protests that stood out across the country was on Kent State, Ohio, and also at Jackson State, Mississippi which combined had 6 students killed, which made a mother cry out "They are killing our babies in Vietnam and in our own backyard". With Nixon relying on air warfare angered citizens and his administration working on a treaty. With the pre-treaty talks not working, Nixon and his administration started a series of major bombings of the DRV's major cities of Hanoi and Haiphong (referred to as the Christmas Bombings). After the attacks were made, the severe attacks brought a lot of dislike to Nixon and his administration from people around the world. The immediate talk and dislike of the choices caused Nixon and his administration to rethink their war tactics and also talk of negotiation. After new negotiations went underway, Nixon and his administration signed a peace accord on January 23, 1973 which stated that the United States would not abandon the GVN.

(http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html - "The Nixon Years" and "The Paris Peace Agreement" )