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Early in Richard Nixon’s presidency, he told chief of staff Bob Haldeman that his secret strategy for ending the Vietnam War was to threaten the use of nuclear weapons.  Nixon believed that President Eisenhower’s nuclear threats in 1953 brought a quick end to the Korean War, and he took part in discussions to use nuclear More

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