Abstract
This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the prisoners of war problem to justify the war and "divert attention of [the American public opinion] from the fighting […] that are still continuing in Southeast Asia".
In order to show us how the US government manipulates the public opinion, Van Dyke insists on several points. So, in the first part, we will study how J M. Van Dyke sees the arguments used by the Nixon administration to change the mind of the American public opinion, and what he thinks about that.
