The Nixon Administration sought to make Hanoi more tractable through which of the following?
A. pressure on Moscow threatening the withdrawal of trade
B. efforts at open and clandestine bribery and "buy-outs"
C. the promise of a defensive alliance against China
D. maximizing the leverage it held with its may North Vietnamese POWs
E. the threat of "massive retaliation"
Answer: E
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