It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. At a July meeting in Nixon's New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message needed to be passed to the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, it would come via Chennault. 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. The Paris peace talks may have ended years earlier, if it had not been for Nixon's subterfuge.
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Valley Oak
04-06-2013, 06:06 PM
It has also been discovered that Nixon did indeed know about the Watergate break-in from the beginning, and probably helped to plan it. Back then, when the hearings were being held and Nixon FINALLY resigned under threat of certain impeachment, everyone believed that Nixon was told that the break-in had taken place and that he decided to cover it up--after the fact.
...And even after Nixon's resignation in total disgrace, there were still millions of Americans who would have voted for him again!
The majority of people get the leaders they deserve; it is the minority of us that I feel very sorry for.
It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. At a July meeting in Nixon's New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message needed to be passed to the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, it would come via Chennault. 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. The Paris peace talks may have ended years earlier, if it had not been for Nixon's subterfuge.
Read more: Richard Nixon Tapes - History's Yard Waste Explored, Continued - Esquire (https://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Nixon_Still_Pretty_Much_Sucks#ixzz2ObeUTUyB) https://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Nixon_Still_Pretty_Much_Sucks#ixzz2ObeUTUyB