etnam it was using precious resources and troops to fight in Cambodia. Nixon however told the public: it is not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia, but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam and winning the just peace we desire. He also told the public that such an action was needed to rout out Communist sanctuaries and supply routes, and help Cambodia in its fight against communism. The bombing in Cambodia evidently did nothing in the overall Vietnam War but devastate a neutral country. His attempt to buy time failed. Now that he had escalated the war, public opinion of President Nixon began to decline. Though he had ordered the withdrawal of a number of U.S. forces from Vietnam, his peace-talks were going nowhere, the public was becoming furious of the time allotment. When he became president he had promised to put an end to the war, but he had done nothing but worsen the situation. Yet Nixon kept saying that Vietnam was an area which the U.S. had an important role in, namely keeping Communism out of South Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger both knew that America was stronger than North Vietnam, however North Vietnam still hadnt fallen. Nixon and Kissinger believed it was only a matter of time, give them some more pressure and theyll break. Kissinger expressed his stand as: "I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point" He and Nixon were determined to keep South Vietnam from being defeated.Due to his invasion in Cambodia, those who had hoped that Nixon was to be the peace president, now saw him as a madman. There came many demonstrations, which lead to horrible incidents in America. During one of the demonstrations poorly trained National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University, on May 4. This made the protests much worse than anyone in Washington could have expected. There came a wave of demonstrations on hundreds of college campuses, which hinde...
