How Nixon Scuttled Peace Talks to Win 1968 Election

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/01/nixon-scuttled-peace-talks-win-election/

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“Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest suspicions and the most cause for outrage at his successor’s rumored treachery. To them all, Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion. ‘My God. I would never do anything to encourage’ South Vietnam ‘not to come to the table,’ Nixon told Johnson, in a conversation captured on the White House taping system,” the New York Times reports.

“Now we know Nixon lied. A newfound cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, his closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign’s efforts to scuttle the peace talks, which he feared could give his opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an edge in the 1968 election. On Oct. 22, 1968, he ordered Haldeman to ‘monkey wrench’ the initiative.”


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[Rollo]

1. And still to this day people deny Nixon's treason.

[charlyvi]

2. I remember that!

Everyone knew what he was doing and why he was doing it, but couldn't stop him. Kind of analogous to Repubs now saying they will reign Trump in, so why worry? The more things change.......

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Yeah, that was one of the reasons people were so repulsed by ...certain.. praising of Kissinger

during the campaign, too.

Speaking of "Normalizing" people.

[applegrove]

4. I read Nixons biography in the early 1990s and totally fell for his rewirtting of history in it.

I am a gullible reader that is for sure.

[CanonRay]

5. To me, this is where the decline in our legal system began.

He should have been impeached and then tried for treason.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Thom Hartmann has been talking about this for a while. Here's a recording of LBJ

calling Nixon's actions "treason".