Early in Richard Nixon’s presidency, he told his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, that his secret strategy for ending the Vietnam War was to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. Nixon opined that President Eisenhower’s nuclear threats in 1953 brought a quick end to the Korean War, and that he planned to use the same principle of
Trump and Bolton Take a Page From Richard Nixon and the Mad Man Theory
The madman theory of policy is a debatable subject, but the thought of having actual madmen in positions of power is frightening.
