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President Johnson, a tormented but ultimately sincere man, could not bear the burden of the war.  His incoherent war policy, combined with the lies and deceptions he employed to sell it, resulted in a loss of public faith in his honesty.  He began to doubt himself, while his incompetent administration, exemplified by [[Robert McNamara]], began to have doubts about the morality of US policy.  Many of them would join the anti-war movement.

President Johnson, a tormented but ultimately sincere man, could not bear the burden of the war.  His incoherent war policy, combined with the lies and deceptions he employed to sell it, resulted in a loss of public faith in his honesty.  He began to doubt himself, while his incompetent administration, exemplified by [[Robert McNamara]], began to have doubts about the morality of US policy.  Many of them would join the anti-war movement.

Richard Nixon was subsequently elected President on a pledge to end the war by ''prosecuting'' it.  His shrewd diplomacy, backed with the immense intellect of his National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, [[Henry Kissinger]], hoped to negotiate an end to the war through a show of force.   

Richard Nixon was subsequently elected President on a pledge to end the war by ''prosecuting'' it.  His shrewd diplomacy, backed with the immense intellect of his National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, [[Henry Kissinger]], hoped to [[negotiate]] an end to the war through a show of force.   

Although Sihanouk designated all insurgents "red Khmers," or "Khmer Rouge," in reality there were two main indigenous insurgent groups.  One was the Khmer Viet Minh, modeled on the Pathet Lao, that Hanoi held total political authority over.  The other was called the Khmer Krahom, a fanatical Maoist cult that would soon be led by one Saloth Sar, who would later become infamous for his genocidal brutality under his assumed name, Pol Pot.  Both traced their roots back to a common cadre trained by Ho Chi Minh in China from 1925-30.  At Geneva, Hanoi had attempted to secure a KVM "zone" in northeastern Cambodia that would have been modeled on the Pathet Lao zone they secured in Laos.  This amounted to an attempt to divide Cambodia into Communist and non-Communist halves, like Vietnam.

Although Sihanouk designated all insurgents "red Khmers," or "Khmer Rouge," in reality there were two main indigenous insurgent groups.  One was the Khmer Viet Minh, modeled on the Pathet Lao, that Hanoi held total political authority over.  The other was called the Khmer Krahom, a fanatical Maoist cult that would soon be led by one Saloth Sar, who would later become infamous for his genocidal brutality under his assumed name, Pol Pot.  Both traced their roots back to a common cadre trained by Ho Chi Minh in China from 1925-30.  At Geneva, Hanoi had attempted to secure a KVM "zone" in northeastern Cambodia that would have been modeled on the Pathet Lao zone they secured in Laos.  This amounted to an attempt to divide Cambodia into Communist and non-Communist halves, like Vietnam.