Does he furthermore understand, that, Nixon didn't actually withdraw.
He might have taken home some troops, but truth be told, he didn't leave fully till the mission was over. When he left office, South Vietnam was free, and was holding its own against North Vietnam, and would have been able to survive on its own if we had merely kept giving it the necessary funding.
It was the Democratically controlled Congress that then snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by overriding Jerry Ford and holding back the funding for North Vietnam.
I don't know how old this reporter is, but this analysis reminds me of some of the analysis I saw during the 2000 election campaign.
Lots of 20 or 30 something journalists imagining that Dims winning presidential elections is the normal state of nature and not knowing a thing about the recent history of US presidential elections an the GOP electoral college advantage.
Similarly I read the same people claiming FL is a toss up state despite having a second term GOP govenor, a GOP Attorney General, the more recently elected Senator being a member of the GOP etc. If 5 out of 6 of your statewide elected officials are from the GOP, your legislature is controlled by the GOP, then it is a red state in my book even if only by a slight consistent majority.