Back in February, Nixon had said antiwar Democrats “might give the enemy an incentive to prolong the war until after the election.” Actually, that was what he was doing, just as he had in 1968. Twenty years later, a superannuated Richard Nixon met with a group of young reporters just before the 1992 New Hampshire primary and copped to it. He explained that the incumbent Republican president would have been able to guarantee his reelection, but that it was too late: he ended the Iraq war when he should have kept it going at least until the election. “We had a lot of success with that in 1972,”
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