In 1970, the North Vietnamese overran much of Cambodia at the request of the Khmer Rouge. In April of that year, Nixon announced a ground invasion of Cambodia, followed by Operation Freedom Deal ...
Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman who has died at age 100, stands accused by his critics of many things, but perhaps the most outlandish is that he bears responsibility for the killing ...
Nixon understood that his own views would eventually be outdated. He expanded the Vietnam war into Cambodia, which resulted in the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the deaths of up to 2 million people.
Four of those Kent State students died. That event, combined with Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, led to protests at more than 1,300 college campuses, with some 500 closed by student and faculty ...