Question

In the hope of ending the Vietnam War before the 1972 presidential election, President Nixon changed his position and decided that ______.

a. the North Vietnamese military could remain in South Vietnam

b. American troops should remain in South Vietnam to help rebuild the country

c. North Vietnam would have to give up its claims in Cambodia

d. American troops would take over ground combat from South Vietnam

Answer 1

a. the North Vietnamese military could remain in South Vietnam

The remaining challenge for Nixon's re-election bid was the ongoing war in Vietnam. In the hopes of ending the conflict in time for the vote, Nixon changed his position that North Vietnamese troops would have to leave the south as a condition of any peace.
Armed with this maior concession, Kissinger met secretly with North Vietnamese foreign secretary Le Duc Tho in Paris to negotiate a cease-fire. On October 26, shortly before Election Day, they reached a tentative accord. Nixon could now tell the American public that peace is at hand." (Shortly after the election, the agreement unraveled.)