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I am sure that if I had been able to stay in office uh that first I would have done something uh in order to prevent what eventually happened but second it wouldn't have been necessary to do anything due to the fact that I had already established my credibility with the north by what I had done just three weeks before the Soviet Summit in 1972 when I ordered the bombing and Mining of hyong even though it might risk the summit and what I did the most difficult military decision know my whole presidency at the at the time of the Christmas so-called Christmas bombing of 1972 which brought the war to an end through the peace agreement those actions indicated that I was willing to take any political risk in order to prevent the North Vietnamese from winning the victory that they wanted to win