RE: Nixon's 1968 "secret plan to end the war."

Nixon's (and Kissinger's) plan was to escalate and widen the war for more than three years, until the Democrats had nominated a single-issue anti-war candidate in 1972. Then they quickly pulled the rug out from under McGovern by finally making a move towards withdrawal. Pretty cynical, of course, but then we know by now all about CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) and their many dirty tricks, so their cavalier attitude about the war and its victims should not be surprising.

I believe that the anti-war demonstrators and draft resisters, etc., were looking for a somewhat quicker cessation of hostilities.