Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

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This quote suggests that the Watergate scandal in the United States allowed the Democratic Party to block any assistance to South Vietnam, ultimately leading to the American defeat in the war. The quote implies that the Democratic Party had already accepted the defeat and withdrawal from the war, which led to the Nixon administration salvaging a non-Communist South Vietnam before the complete American withdrawal. The underlying message is that the Democrats' actions during the Watergate scandal had an impact on the outcome of the Vietnam War.

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