This Cambodian business is just somebody's imagination. John Kerry's imagination. And pinning it on Dick Nixon is equally immoral. As pointed out, Christmas in 1968 was a time still under the Democratic Administration of Lyndon Johnson. The Apollo 8 crew members went around the moon. And that was about it.
And John Kerry went searching for Bob Hope. Sure, Kerry's going to know he is in Cambodia, even if he were there. Good point about him saying he could ID the Khmer Rouge. What a phoney.
Methinks Kerry has been talking to Oliver Stone too much, or perhaps seeing "Platoon" a few too many times, particularly the "Cambodian incursion" scene. ("Yeah, I even heard we're in F---in' Cambodia." "Cambodia? Man!!!")
During 1967 and 1968, Operation Salem House was putting US Special Forces (Green Berets?) into Cambodia to conduct recon mission and also create random chaos. I don't know very much about these missions but IF they were using swift boats to drop these guys into Cambodia, there is a chance Kerry could have been there when he says he was.
Read my previous post. IF he was there and he was getting shot at, it was not by the Khmer Rouge who didn't exist at the time.