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Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 08:51 PM Sep 2017

Do you think Ken Burns will include how the Nixon campaign sabotaged the 1968 Paris Peace Talks

by cutting a deal with South Vietnam to do nothing before the election? I doubt it!

The Reagan campaign used the same playbook in 1980 to keep the hostages in Iran until after the election.

The Republicans hac cheated in almost every election!

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Do you think Ken Burns will include how the Nixon campaign sabotaged the 1968 Paris Peace Talks (Original Post) Chasstev365 Sep 2017 OP
Yes...no doubt about it....Burns always involves incredible details..and I believe this will be Stuart G Sep 2017 #1
I know, half as many losses Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #2
What made it even more bitter was.... Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #4
Yep! Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #5
If it's out there MFM008 Sep 2017 #3
There's no doubt. mobeau69 Sep 2017 #6

Stuart G

(38,449 posts)
1. Yes...no doubt about it....Burns always involves incredible details..and I believe this will be
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 08:59 PM
Sep 2017

discussed. And it won't be pretty..It could be the ugliest aspect of the entire series...Why?...If there was a peace deal in 1968...there would have been thousands of fewer deaths..(tens of thousands of Vietnamese)

Brother Buzz

(36,478 posts)
4. What made it even more bitter was....
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:22 PM
Sep 2017

Nixon campaigned on a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam that we soon learned was nonexistent.

mobeau69

(11,159 posts)
6. There's no doubt.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:25 PM
Sep 2017

He's a national treasure. Lewis and Clark is still one of my top two favorites. Hal Holbrook was an awesome choice of narrator for it.

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