onomy3.Help the South Vietnamese extend their control over the countryside4.Reduce the invasion threat by destroying enemy sanctuaries and supply lines in Cambodia and Laos5.Withdraw half a million American troops from Vietnam in a way that would not bring about a collapse in the south.6.Negotiate a cease-fire and a peace treaty, with as main goal to end the war honourably.7.Demonstrate our willingness and determination to stand by our ally if the peace agreement was violated in Hanoi, and assure South Vietnam that it would continue to receive our military aid as Hanoi did from its allies, the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent China.The citizens of American saw Nixon as the "peaceful-president", they thought Nixon would be the one who would put an end to the war in Southeast Asia and bring American troops home. At the time Henry A. Kissinger was his most trusted foreign policy adviser. What Nixon and Kissinger did was redefine the American role in the world, suggesting limits to U.S. resources and commitments. Therefore, Nixon and Kissinger set out to end the war "honourably", whereby this meant that total withdrawal from Vietnam could not, in Nixon's eyes, be an immediate option. Nixon felt that this would be a total abandonment of the South Vietnamese who had "counted" on American aid in defending the South. Also Nixon and Kissinger had their eyes on Moscow and China. Whatever happened, if the U.S. troops were to be cleared form the war, it should be done in a manner that would maintain U.S. credibility with friends and enemy. In the first year of his presidency, Nixon was indeed the president he promised to be. He tried to scale down Americas involvement in the war by ordering soldiers home. The nation was happy with how things were going. He had done several attempts to make an end to the war. One attempt was by sending a secret letter to Ho Chin Minh in July 1969, urging him to settle the war, at the same time he threatened him ...
