Editor’s note: This article is one in a five-part series looking back on the life of one of Duke’s most infamous alumni — Richard Nixon. Read the previous installments on Nixon’s childhood and time at ...

ROANOKE, Va. -- Three months before the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger huddled together in the Oval Office to discuss when and how to get out of Vietnam. Despite a ...

The Vietnam War was our longest—longer than the Civil War and the two world wars. It rent our society as no other issue had done since the War Between the States, and the wounds it inflicted have yet ...

SAIGON — Sights and sounds of the Nixons' visit to Vietnam: — Air Force One, the presidential jet liner, spent most of the afternoon in Cam Ranh Bay after depositing the Nixon party at Saigon's Tan ...

On Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War, and would be formally signed on Jan. 27 in Paris. Four days later, the U.S., South Vietnam, North ...