Hi! Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential race based on the idea that the war in Vietnam would end as quickly as possible. However, his idea involved winning the war by giving a nuclear ultimatum to the Vietnamese forces and offering a treaty that offered concessions from both sides. But, the great demonstration that took place on October 15, 1969, the Moratorium to end the war in Vietnam, where approximately 2 million people went out to protest throughout the country, has achieved -according to Ellsberg- that this nuclear war if it were not carried out, the demonstration managed to keep the war in certain limits without leading to an even greater war where nuclear weapons were used.
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