RealClearPolitics Podcast

Kissinger's Betrayal with Stephen Young

Episode Summary

In this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters speaks with Stephen Young the author of a new book from RealClearPublishing, “Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War.” Young, who served with USAID in Vietnam, gathered new declassified evidence to challenge the conventional view of Henry Kissinger's role in the peace negotiations that ended the Vietnam War. Did Kissinger intentionally withhold options from President Nixon? By allowing the North Vietnamese Army to remain in the South after the ceasefire, did Kissinger insure the South's ultimate collapse?

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