• This is a British cartoon published in the Daily Telegraph in January 1972.
  
• Richard Nixon became US President in 1969. One of the main elements of his election campaign was his determination to get the USA out of Vietnam.
  
• He started investigating the possibility of negotiations in 1968, even before he was elected.
  
• One of the influences in this cartoon is a story from the Philippines in 1970. The Philippines were invaded by the Japanese in the Second World War. In 1945 some Japanese troops were left behind. They continued fighting a guerrilla war long after the war ended. The last one emerged from the jungle in 1970.