Aftermath of The Lavelle Affair
The North Vietnamese launched the Easter Invasion of South Vietnam on March 30, 1972, a week after Lavelle’s recall. The U.S. Air Force resumed bombing of North Vietnam.
The issue of whether the Lavelle missions were authorized was lost amid bigger stories—Richard Nixon’s re-election, the collapse of the Paris peace agreement, and the Watergate scandal.
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