Nixon wins in 1960. Does this lead to greater US intervention in Laos?

OTL the Kennedy administration provided weapons, training, intelligence to anticommunist forces etc. US involvement escalated under Johnson with aerial bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail and the North Vietnamese military.

So if Nixon wins, what does he do in Laos? Would he be willing to escalate and send US soldiers to Laos? How would this escalation affect the Laotian Civil War in particular, and Indochina in general?
 
. . . willing to escalate and send US soldiers to Laos? . . .
It’s all well and fine for us to say from the perspective of 2019, go big or go home,

but I think many of the same considerations that led Kennedy and Johnson to hope that more limited engagement was going to work are still going to be there.
 
Probably yes- but OTH, in 1961 a President
Nixon wouldn’t have had Henry Kissinger
pushing him to go to war.
 
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