[bert]

Garbagacious premise.

The Nixon move to recognize China was a great event.

China is an can not be ignored. By dealing with China, Nixon flanked Russian ambitions in Vietnam and effectively ended the vietnam war. Russia was out.

[Zhang Fei]

[China is an can not be ignored. By dealing with China, Nixon flanked Russian ambitions in Vietnam and effectively ended the vietnam war. Russia was out.]

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That’s untrue. The Chinese continued supplying North Vietnam until the fall of Saigon. The Russians ramped up their shipments to North Vietnam to replace the equipment destroyed during the Easter Offensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Confronting_U.S._escalation

Basically, Nixon was a crappy president except when compared to the Democratic opponents he faced. Reagan would have won in South Vietnam. The question, however, is whether he could have defeated Humphrey in 68.