About That ‘Secret Plan’

Now, four years after Candidate Nixon announced that he had a “secret plan” to end the war, we are dropping more bomb tonnage than ever. (George McGovern, full-page ad, the Washington Post, headlined “The Truth about Vietnam Now,” Sept. 13, 1972.)

. . . Mr. Nixon—when he campaigned —said, “I’ve got a secret plan to bring peace to Vietnam.” (Sargent Shriver at a rally in Queens, Sept. 22, 1972.)

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Now, four years after Candidate Nixon announced that he had a “secret plan” to end the war, we are dropping more bomb tonnage than ever. (George McGovern, full-page ad, the Washington Post, headlined “The Truth about Vietnam Now,” Sept. 13, 1972.)

. . . Mr. Nixon—when he campaigned —said, “I’ve got a secret plan to bring peace to Vietnam.” (Sargent Shriver at a rally in Queens, Sept. 22, 1972.)