George Will confirms Nixon's Vietnam treason

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/harvey-wasserman/57510/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason

George Will confirms Nixon's Vietnam treason
Richard Nixon
by Harvey Wasserman | August 9, 2014 - 9:29am

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The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will.

Nixon's newly revealed records show for certain that in 1968, as a presidential candidate, he ordered Anna Chennault, his liaison to the South Vietnam government, to persuade them refuse a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson.

Nixon's interference with these negotiations violated President John Adams's 1797 Logan Act, banning private citizens from intruding into official government negotiations with a foreign nation.

Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit" to stop potential leaks of information that might damage him, including documentation he believed was held by the Brookings Institute, a liberal think tank. The Plumbers' later break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. That info has been out there for some time, before now.

Watergate took the headlines, while other break-ins faded to the back ground.

Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Viet Nam war was his major campaign issue.
He sabotaged LBJ teh same way Reagan sabotaged Carter re: release of hostages.

[bemildred]

2. That sort of thing has been like a tradition since Nixon.

Raygun with Iran and the Hostages, for one example.

But fortunately, now that they can rig the elections directly, this sort of chicanery is mostly done by desperate losers like McCain.