Democratic critics 'the party of surrender' - Nixon

As the Vietnam War wound down, Democrats in Congress were trying to cut off funding and bring troops home. In a Vanity Fair magazine article drawing on research for his upcoming book, “Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power,” ( historian Robert ) Dallek used telephone transcripts of calls between President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to show that soon after taking office in 1969, Nixon was aware that victory in Vietnam was impossible. Dallek also quotes the unpublished diaries of Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman, who said, “Nixon later urged that Democratic critics making this same point should be labeled ‘the party of surrender.’ ” - From Get Ready for Debate About Who Lost Iraq: Bush Could Blame Democrats, but Americans See It as His War, by Edward Epstein. Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007, by San Francisco Chronicle , April 5, 2007.