Nixon and Kissinger negotiated the peace treaties, with help from the French. Nixon happened to resign before the last helicopter departed Saigon, so Ford presided over that. These men are Republicans.

If you subscribe to a sellout or back stab theory of why America lost Vietnam, Republicans are holding the knife and the cash.

The President already learned one lesson from Nixon: delay the inevitable until after you're safely reelected. If he truly wants to learn the lesson of Vietnam, Bush should hurry up and lose this stupid war, before it's too late.