Stein was in St. Louis over election weekend. We were there to work in the campaign and spoke with him at the airport.
That said, his argument in this piece is absurd. We were losing in Vietnam before Watergate, and keeping Nixon in office would not have changed that, nor could Nixon have stopped the Khmer Rouge. The US was withdrawing from southeast asia in 1972, and Nixon was not going to further escalate the conflict into Cambodia.
If you want to look back, consider this: had Nixon not left office, we likely would not have been tortured by four years of Jimmy Carter, but we also would probably never have had a Reagan presidency. Some things turn out for the best.
We were losing in Vietnam? How do you figure that?
The United States most certainly did not lose the Vietnam war on the battlefield. U.S. armed forces won every battle of consequence, including the notorious Tet Offensive.
The war was lost in Washington D.C., when the Democrats abandoned South Vitenam.