That is one of the items I lumped into how excellent he was in foreign affairs.
Do you recall the “Cambodian Incursion”. Allowed to procede, it would have completely cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Of course the Dems in the house principally and Walter Cronkite complained so much one would have thought Nixon ordered the nuking of Haiphong Harbor. Anyway, he was politically forced to withdraw and the rest is history.
Yes and history books will never have the correct version of it in classes unless. It’s truly sad what happened to Nixon but the handwriting was on the wall then.