The Evil Of Nixon

[EV_Ares]

Nixon’s Paris Sabotage

The 1968 presidential race between Richard Nixon and Vice President Hubert Humphrey was extraordinarily tight, and Vietnam was the overriding issue. Nixon, who promised voters he would “end the war and win the peace in Vietnam,” fretted that a breakthrough in Paris would deliver the election to his rival. As described by journalists Seymour Hersh and Anthony Summers, Nixon dispatched an intermediary, Washington socialite Anna Chennault, to tell South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that Nixon, if elected, would cut a better deal for the South than the Democrats would. The talks were set to begin in late October. But on Nov. 2—three days before the U.S. election—Thieu announced that the South would not participate. President Johnson, who suspected Nixon of meddling, telephoned him and angrily threatened to expose him. Nixon denied the charge, and Johnson backed down.

In his book The Arrogance of Power, Summers wrote that after the conversation ended, Nixon put down the phone, and along with some aides in the room, burst out laughing. The story remained a well-kept secret until years after the war’s end. Nixon won the presidency, and the war continued for five more years. During that time, 20,763 U.S. soldiers were killed.

http://www.theweekmagazine.com/news/articles/news.aspx?ArticleID=1927

[sakabatou]

1. Well, Nixon is an evil bastard

[Wiley50]

2. So That Was the First "October Suprise"

It Figures