That was a Democrat controlled Congress that made us incapable of backing up our end of things to guarantee the protection of the South.
I don’t doubt for a single second that there were Democrat politicians who were communicating through back channels that if they invaded the South, there was no way we were going to even commit to bombing, so 1975 was a foregone conclusion.
The deal was okay as far as it went. I give Nixon credit for allowing our forces to finally bomb Hanoi, Haiphong, and other areas in the North to force the issue.
Linebacker II was one of the most sensible and effective campaigns of that war.
They literally ran out of missiles to shoot at us, and then we found out later that they wondered why we did not press the attack and just walk in to hanoi.