Long-time rumors about presidential candidate Nixon conspiring to delay the ending of the Vietnam War were recently confirmed.
A year ago, historian and journalist John A Farrell wrote in the New York Times:
fA newfound cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, [Nixon’s] closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign’s efforts to scuttle the peace talks [President Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion], 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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We must now weigh apparently criminal behavior that, given the human lives at stake and the decade of carnage that followed in Southeast Asia, may be more reprehensible than anything Nixon did in Watergate.
Nixon had entered the fall campaign with a lead over Humphrey, but the gap was closing that October. Henry A. Kissinger, then an outside Republican adviser, had called, alerting Nixon that a deal was in the works: If Johnson would halt all bombing of North Vietnam, the Soviets pledged to have Hanoi engage in constructive talks to end a war that had already claimed 30,000 American lives.
But Nixon had a pipeline to Saigon, where the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, feared that Johnson would sell him out. If Thieu would stall the talks, Nixon could portray Johnson’s actions as a cheap political trick. The conduit was Anna Chennault, a Republican doyenne and Nixon fund-raiser, and a member of the pro-nationalist China lobby, with connections across Asia.
“! Keep Anna Chennault working on” South Vietnam, Haldeman scrawled, recording Nixon’s orders. “Any other way to monkey wrench it? Anything RN can do.”
Nixon told Haldeman to have Rose Mary Woods, the candidate’s personal secretary, contact another nationalist Chinese figure — the businessman Louis Kung — and have him press Thieu as well. “Tell him hold firm,” Nixon said.
Here are some screenshots from Haldeman’s notes in Nixon’s presidential library:
Nixon also sought help from Chiang Kai-shek, the president of Taiwan. [He was considered somewhat of an enemy of the United States; the CIA considered assassinating him.] And he ordered Haldeman to have his vice-presidential candidate, Spiro T. Agnew, threaten the C.I.A. director, Richard Helms. Helms’s hopes of keeping his job under Nixon depended on his pliancy, Agnew was to say. “Tell him we want the truth — or he hasn’t got the job,” Nixon said.
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Nixon had cause to lie. His actions appear to violate federal law, which prohibits private citizens from trying to “defeat the measures of the United States.” His lawyers fought throughout Nixon’s life to keep the records of the 1968 campaign private. The broad outline of “the Chennault affair” would dribble out over the years. But the lack of evidence of Nixon’s direct involvement gave pause to historians and afforded his loyalists a defense.
Time has yielded Nixon’s secrets. Haldeman’s notes were opened quietly at the presidential library in 2007, where I came upon them in my research for a biography of the former president.
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When Johnson got word of Nixon’s meddling, he ordered the F.B.I. to track Chennault’s movements. She “contacted Vietnam Ambassador Bui Diem,” one report from the surveillance noted, “and advised him that she had received a message from her boss … to give personally to the ambassador. She said the message was … ‘Hold on. We are gonna win. … Please tell your boss to hold on.’ ”
In a conversation with the Republican senator Everett Dirksen, the minority leader, Johnson lashed out at Nixon. “I’m reading their hand, Everett,” Johnson told his old friend. “This is treason.”
“I know,” Dirksen said mournfully.
Johnson’s closest aides urged him to unmask Nixon’s actions. But on a Nov. 4 conference call, they concluded that they could not go public because, among other factors, they lacked the “absolute proof,” as Defense Secretary Clark Clifford put it, of Nixon’s direct involvement.
Nixon was elected president the next day.
The BBC’s 2013 report adds details:
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson’s telephone calls provide a fresh insight ….
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By the time of the election in November 1968, LBJ had evidence Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam war peace talks – or, as he put it, that Nixon was guilty of treason and had “blood on his hands”.
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In late October 1968 there were major concessions from Hanoi which promised to allow meaningful talks to get underway in Paris – concessions that would justify Johnson calling for a complete bombing halt of North Vietnam. This was exactly what Nixon feared.
Chennault was despatched to the South Vietnamese embassy with a clear message: the South Vietnamese government should withdraw from the talks, refuse to deal with Johnson, and if Nixon was elected, they would get a much better deal.
So on the eve of his planned announcement of a halt to the bombing, Johnson learned the South Vietnamese were pulling out.
He was also told why. The FBI had bugged the ambassador’s phone and a transcripts of Anna Chennault’s calls were sent to the White House. In one conversation she tells the ambassador to “just hang on through election”.
Johnson was told by Defence Secretary Clifford that the interference was illegal and threatened the chance for peace.
This is treason: contacting foreign leaders, including enemies of the United States, in order to thwart official U.S. policies and prolong war.
(There is also some rather intriguing circumstantial evidence that presidential candidate Ronald Reagan convinced the Iranians not to release American hostages until after the election … to make rival candidate Jimmy Carter look weak.)
That is in sharp distinction to the common practice of presidential candidates contacting foreign leaders for normal diplomatic purposes.
On the other hand, what type of foreign contacts did candidate Trump have with Russia?
The only thing which has proven so far is that Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael “Flynn asked Russia’s ambassador to refrain from escalating the situation regarding the U.S. sanctions on Russia” and “Flynn asked Russia’s ambassador to delay a vote on pending UN Security Council resolution on Israel”.
The first request would promote peace between two nuclear superpowers by delaying an escalating round of sanctions from spiraling out of control.
The second didn’t succeed … Russia ignored the Trump administration’s request, and voted to condemn Israeli settlements.
Such actions pale in comparison to what Nixon (and perhaps Reagan) did.
I never saw any signs that LBJ was interested in peace in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos.
ALL part of the CounterAttack by Dems----their recent her0 caught favoring Iran Mob Actions, they ALWAYS will dig up something on NIXON!
BTW------how about LBJ's recorded phone calls to a Senator, telling him that he--LBJ--had to be tough on VN, or the Republicans would slaughter him Politically-----subsequently he CREATED a phony Incident of VN attacking a US naval vessel to get war declared---WOW----AND
THIS FAKE George Washington, and an incompetent historian write a pboney hit piece
I've come to the conclusion that the Donald was selected to preside over the restructuring of the US. The tired ,well worn= out slogan that he is "better than Hillary" is inconsequential considering how bad Hillary was. Being"better" than a criminal,crook,treasonous ,abject psychopath isn't really an accomplishment.
I don't know how this restructuring will be achieved and what the result will be,but I am sure this is the case.
US is beyond any possible saving. Look at the debts(government,personal,corporations),trade deficit(700 Bil each year),the outsourcing of everything(they even outsourced false flags ,like 911,done mostly by Mo$$ad,how sick is that?),total collapse of the infrastructure,a sick population on every level(physical,moral,spiritual,social,educational,cultural combined with the entitlement and exceptional mentality),an Empire spread to thin all over the world,policing it(900+ military bases,financial bribes,wars and threats of wars).
And something nobody likes to talk about and which is also unsustainable: 5% of the world population consumes 50% of its resources and produces 40% of its waste.
These are the facts and are unarguable and irrefutable.
So US ,in its actual form ,has to go. Will it collapse in multiple smaller states?Possible.If you look closely,(they )are nudging for a civil war or big social upheaval.( see 1/2 country "with her"hating the other 1/2 ,Antifa,BLM,immigration which continues)
The Donald ,who has great experience with bankruptcy,was "selected" to preside over the US bankruptcy.
This is what I believe ,after observing what has/is happening.
But,I could be wrong,I'm not part of the CLUB(The Donald,as wealthy as he is,is only the doorman of the BIG CLUB,in my opinion).
As for the guilty presidents,my list of the most corrupt,treasonous :
-Woodrow Wilson :for the FED
the income tax
the unnecessary WWI and set up of WWII(Versailles treaty)
sedition act of 1918 ,killing free speech and first propaganda organization,the Committee on Public Information
He rejected the principles of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” that are the foundation of American government: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand….” wrote Wilson in The State.
-Lincoln for the Civil War,which killed 600,000-700,000 Americans,to preserve the power of the Big government ,and destroyed the rights of the States
-Poppy Bush ,the See Eye Ayy guy ,involved in killing of JFK,inaugurated the list of the MODERN days disasters,because I view ALL the presidents after him as a Bush variant.For the Donald,see my above comments.
Feel better now?
Speaking of the Company, DC and Clinton corruption, I just watched American Made last night for the first time, about Barry Seal and Mena. I've known about Mena for a long time but it was still an eyel-opener--the amorality and incompetence of the CIA clearly portrayed. And a wonderful moment when the AK AG gets a phone call from Governor Clinton, just in case anyone has any question of Clinton's CIA connections. A nice little bit with Ollie North and GHWB lurking in the background too. Great stuff. Of course they left out plenty but still a good thing to see some dark truth in a mainstream movie.
And to think an honest man did run for high office.........
We get the government we deserve.
Who is Ron Paul
I gave $1,000 to the Ron Paul campaign,the biggest (and last) campaign contribution of my life I saw him as this country's last hope for salvation before oblivion. What I got for my money was petty IRS harassment starting less than a month later, shockingly fast for a government that can take years to schedule a Veteran's Admin doctor appointment.
George, try to remember that time in september....Teddy boy and Russia
"According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections. Kennedy’s communist communique was so secret that it was not discovered until 1991, eight years after Kennedy had initiated his Soviet gambit:"
wait!what ! the DNC and Russia collude? what ?you mean like today's news of hillary DNC and fusion?? history rhymes or somethin
This is a political hit job. Nixon didn't do anything worse than FDR, LBJ, and others. El Blow Job and the CIA (also know as the Bush Family) OWN the Vietnam War debacle. The CIA tape reader was a magical device that would say anything the CIA wanted it to say. LBJ and GHWB is why Pence is VP. Why Biden, Cheyney, and Quayle were chosen. Why Nixon should have said no to replacing Agnew with (made man) Ford.
Your logic, like your narrative is faulty. It doesn't matter if 'other' presidents committed treason too, that is not the point.
The point is that treason has been regularly committed and no element of the so called 'government' has ever done anything about it.
There needs to be a post-mortem sanction taken against all these people, both democrats and republicans.
Bearing in mind the amount of global deaths American hypocrisy and duplicity has wrought this story is a mere fart in a hurricane.
Yeah, no biggy -- it only killed a couple of friends of mine, and put my wife's first love in his grave from leukemia after he worked on Agent Orange helicopters over there.
Treason can be very well be defined as:
"Helping in any way with ... Selling Nuclear material to any (unfriendly) state for multi-million donations..."
That sums up FusionGate... and a lot of Obama administration, DoJ, FBI and others connected are guilty for breaking their precious National Security laws.
Dig him up and send him to Court.
Well, no. That would be much too putrid. But having Congress apply a port-mortem conviction to him would be cleansing.
This is hardly thwarting US policy; the S Vietnam leader could have rejected Nixon's offer. I'm not shocked by this "news".
I didn't really "get" Vietnam until I read _The Politics of Heroin_. The Vietnamese puppet leadership we supported was unbelievably corrupt. They made the most corrupt leaders in US history look like choir boys. We should have told them to go fuck themselves in 1965.
Why not in 1964, 1963.....
LBJ had to start the VN War in order to get re-elected---he said so!
Get some Reality Pills------THE REST OF THE WORLD IS 10 TIMES AS CORRUPT AS USA-----GET REAL----READ WITH COMPREHENSION
Obama created funded armed and unleashed ISIS while branding Al Qaeda in Syria as “moderates” that is as bad or worse
Obama didn't 'kill' 86,000 American service men and wound hundreds of thousands more, nor did he kill 3 millon North Vietnamese, nor did he bankrupt the US treasury gold, nor did he support and sanction a brutal communist slaughter of civilians in Cambodia, nor did he carry out secret bombings in Cambodia and Laos, nor did he bring the world to the brink of nuclear war as the present so called 'president' is doing.
Get some perspective.
Absolutely ... and Clinton played a big hand in that. And:
Good thing there's nobody involved in recent events that has a history of lying or general unethical behavior that has anything to do with Nixon......
before i can agree or argue against your point, I will have to contact my attorney.
Hillary Clinton, with the Rose Law Firm. are you prepared to litigate ?
Are you thinking of Hilliary arguing that Nixon had no right to a lawyer on potential charges of impeachment? Or George H.W. Bush offering his help in the assassination of JF Kennedy? Or of a Connecticut Yankee (G H W Bush) somehow being the first carpetbagger to win in the South since Redestruction?
The bipartisans run deep in these ones.
Was also thinking how Hillary was let go from her very first gig for exactly those two reasons involving Nixon during the Watergate hearings. All these other very valid points are icing on the cake...which we're all wondering when it's going to be served.
Cough ... Uranium One ... cough!
Uranium One was a Canadian company. If anybody should be doing something about what went on, it is us, not you.
We don't need your flawed and dsysfunctional system to root out evil.
You just tell us the facts, and we will take care of the rest.
You just tell us the facts, and we will take care of the rest.
Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau's father. Fidel Castro is Jewish (Marrano ancestry).
The Jews of Cuba
"Famous Hispanics who have acknowledged Marrano ancestry include Rita Moreno and Fidel Castro. Jews have played an important role in the history of Monterrey, Mexico. The Garza family, one of Mexico's richest, of Cerveceria Moctezuma fame, are Jews. Frida Kahlo's father, Guillermo Kahlo, a somewhat reknowned photographer in his own right, was a Hungarian Jew. Diego Rivera admitted having marrano ancestry as well."
http://jewishcuba.org/marranos.html
"If anybody should be doing something about what went on, it is us, not you."
"Us" being the dirty little Canadian secret that the very same people that funnelled the bribe money down the dirty Canadian Conduit to the Clintons, also own the Canadian Politicians that would need to investigate.
Yeah. I'm waiting. Yawn.
Cough...Hezbollah drug trade... cough
Cough...wiretapping Trump Towers to help Hellary...cough
Yes, sir! Correctomundo!!!
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We should thank a foreign power who tells us the truth about our candidates or government. Attacking the messenger rather than the message shows you have no effective argument.
"Chiang Kai-shek, the president of Taiwan. [An enemy of the United States.]"
Chiang Kai-shek, the Leader of non-Communist China, was an enemy of the USA?
Does that mean Mao Tse-tung was our friend?
Please expand upon this new information.
http://www.mygen.com/users/ufo/Mao_was_a_Yale_Man.html
Chiang Kai shek was considered a loose cannon. He kept wanting US to help invade China and give him political power.
The US was considering assasignation during the Korean war. They were afraid he might cause problems.
Exactly what I was thinking...
Facts? We don't need no steenking facts!
Lyndon "Bomber" Johnson wanted to be President so he conspired with Clowns In Action to assassinate JFK and then escalated the Vietnam War by sending one-half million American troops to Vietnam. Seems like Nixon wasn't the only criminal to occupy the White House during the Vietnam War.
At the peak there were more than 3/4 of a million, and even back then, 50 years ago, the war was costing 1 billion dollars, a day.
may it not be ever thus. looks like a good one got canned at the fbi today.
is that a gurgle?
He wasn’t actually fired. He was reassigned
d00p
I have been unhappy with the slow pace of DJT draining the swamp, and more, but then I see what, else, is offered and, I know, everything, else, is worse.
Yes, for sure. It is very debilitating when one discovers that the shit has been spread so far and wide, that there are no 'good choices' left. Other than rounding them all up and throwing them into a pit. And I mean every last one of them, both sides of the aisle, the so called 'think tanks' a.k.a. the CIA brain trust, the SC, the Fed, Wall Street and more.
It would make for a very spectacular bon fire.
Trump's better. A lot better, but the whole shit show is beyond fixing. We will either collapse under the weight of corruption, and a truly stupid and asleep citizenry or we start over after a thorough cleansing. Either way it's impossible to keep existing when half the country hates the other half. Something has to give. Trump was able to overcome nearly impossible odds. Dems, Rino's, MSM, Clinton machine, and now apparently the intelligence agencies. That has to be Divine intervention. Maybe for the reasons listed above? Right man for what's coming? Idk but I know they despise him for a reason.
That's what I say. If you ever find yourself in a position where you think you shouldn't have supported Trump because of his antics, just look at his enemies. Has Trump even made any enemies since he started his campaign that aren't also the enemies of decent people in general?
One of the best ways to get the measure of a man is to see who his enemies are. If you judge Trump solely by that standard, he must be Captain America, or General Patton.