The Guardian published presidential platforms in the November issue of 1973 to provide standings and statistics about candidates just a few days before the election. One Presidential platform was about Republican President Richard Milhouse Nixon. At the time, he was seeking a negotiated settlement in Vietnam that would assure the return of American prisoners of war and prevent a communist invasion in South Vietnam. Under the provision of the Nixon administration, the United States military planned to bomb sections of North Vietnam until a negotiation was reached. Another aspect of Nixon’s platform was his stance on unemployment. He believed that unemployment was an epidemic spreading through America. His goal: to increase employment of Americans without inflation and without war, in the hopes to switch from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy. The idea being that the switch would be made without too much disruption. He also guaranteed that he would not implement any tax increases in his coming term.