In December 1972, as negotiations during the Vietnam War stalled, Richard Nixon approved a final high-risk strategy known as Operation Linebacker II. For eleven consecutive nights, enormous waves of ...

Though Nixon initiated Operation Linebacker II, a bombing campaign against North Vietnam coinciding with the Christmas holiday, he suspended bombing operations on Christmas Day for humanitarian ...

Facing an impasse in negotiations to end the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon ordered an 11-day air campaign in December 1972 to bring North Vietnam back to the negotiating table. “I don’t want ...