Nixon was elected on a policy idea of getting us out of Vietnam, while still winning the war - no easy trick. So he lessened our involvement almost immediately after taking office by beginning to phase out our troop strength there. In his first term Nixon reduced the total number of American troops in Vietnam by nearly two thirds, at the same time as those troops were heavily engaged in offensive operations.
He did widen the war into Cambodia at one point, and he also authorized vastly increased bombing missions over North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos - essentially all of French Indochina. His idea was to "bomb them to the peace table" so they would cut a deal with the US. In part this worked, but it was definitely an escalation in the war.
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