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On 01 May 1970 he sent in US Ground Forces into the neutral country of Cambodia, to destroy COSVN (enemy Central Office S. Vietnam) & enemy supplies. This action resulted in the Kent State Shooting in Ohio 04 May 1970. In 1971, he ordered the invasion of Laos, Operation Lam Son 719 (1971, highway (route) 9), to further disrupt enemy troops & supplies. This action, was a near (close call) disaster for allied forces. President Nixon, believed in former US Air Force, Chief of Staff (1961-1965), General Curtis E. Lemay's word's, when referring to North Vietnam, in 1965; "...They've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or WE'RE GOING TO BOMB THEM BACK INTO THE STONE AGE!" (With the B-52 Stratofortress in mind). President Nixon's "Big Stick" was his B-52's. In 1972, he employed them, with orders for a "maximum effort", during the aerial campaigns designated Linebacker & Linebacker II. Of which the Linebacker II air campaign has been dubbed the "Christmas Bombings" of 1972, by historians.

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