Nixon had said, “I’m the one man that can do it, Bob.” Nixon believed that the communists feared him above all other American politicians, and he wanted to manipulate this perceived fear to end the war. “They’ll believe any threat of force that Nixon makes because it’s Nixon,” he said. Nixon loved unpredictability and surprise, and he didn’t mind being seen, under the right circumstances, as a little unhinged. “I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I
