RICHARD NIXON UNDERMINED PEACE
From Material Assembled, Archived, and Prepared by the News Staff at http://www.americanussr.com

RECENT INFORMATION RELEASED SHOWS HOW NIXON STOPPED PEACE

TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY OVER HUBERT HUMPHREY

Recently released information from the Johnson Library shows how Richard Millhouse Nixon undermined Peace Talks to win the Presidency from Lyndon Baines Johnson's Vice President, Hubert Humphrey. By prolonging the war, Nixon was able to gain enough votes to achieve the majority.

A story published in Constortium News states, "then-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. He joined with Secretary of State Dean Rusk in urging President Johnson not to go public with his evidence of Republican treachery.

Consortium News dot Com
The Significance of Nixon's 'Treason', By Robert Parry, December 9, 2008, http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/120808.html

“Some elements of the story are so shocking in their nature that I’m wondering whether it would be good for the country to disclose the story and then possibly have a certain individual [Nixon] elected,” Clifford said in a Nov. 4, 1968, conference call. “It could cast his whole administration under such doubt that I think it would be inimical to our country’s interests.”

"Clifford’s remark came in the context of Johnson learning that Christian Science Monitor reporter Saville Davis was working on a story about how Nixon’s entourage had undermined the peace talks by sending its own messages to South Vietnamese officials." More...

The Significance of Nixon's 'Treason', By Robert Parry, December 9, 2008, http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/120808.html