Assuming Nixon would have been inaugurated about January 20, 1969, he would have been in office a whole month before Kerry came home from Vietnam for good. That's one month of "Nixon's [very much inherited] War" to IIRC three months of "Johnson's War." [Kerry spent a total of about four months on swift boats in Vietnam.]
It will always be "Nixon's War" to the left. They're allowed to lie.
Yup. Way back during one of the dem debates was the first time I heard Kerry intone "NiXon's War" and I immediately googled and posted on that thread just what you pointed out.
He gets a lot of mileage out of that and naturally not one debate mediator brought up this obvious point.
Nixon took office January 20th, 1969.
It was Johnson that sent Kerry to Vietnam.
It was Richard Nixon who brought him home----and fast!!!
John Kerry is probably the only officer in the history of the Navy who shipped out to war without a clue as to who the CinC was.
Of course, Monsieur Kerry isn't that stupid. It's just that his life is all about vitriolic posturing, so he tries to re-write history in sour script. And the Jennings, Brokaws and Rathers of the world are reading from the same bitter page, so they don't even notice how idiotic his mistatements are.