And my personal opinion would be.... somewhere inside Nixon knew India was doing the right thing by coming to the aid of the Bengalis being massacred by Pakistan so he never made any wrong move. He just didn’t like the idea that this wasn’t happening under US auspices. He didn’t like the idea of losing to a woman from the third world. And he didn’t like seeing his ally’s ass being kicked right under his nose.
“He just didn’t like the idea that this wasn’t happening under US auspices. He didn’t like the idea of losing to a woman from the third world. And he didn’t like seeing his ally’s ass being kicked right under his nose.”
Too much armchair pyshcobabble and too few facts, including too few facts concerning actual foreign policy positions of the Nixon administration.