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That is the lesson of the 1968 and 1980 Presidential elections.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason
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.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20287-without-reagans-treason-iran-would-not-be-a-problem
This was nothing short of treason. The Reagan campaign's secret negotiations with Khomeini - the so-called "October Surprise" - sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr's attempts to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of this year, they most certainly "tipped the results of the [1980] election in Reagan's favor."
Not surprisingly, Iran released the hostages on January 20, 1981, at the exact moment Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)and have a friendly Supreme Court sign off on it.
Too soon?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)"Thanks for all your help."
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Can the liberals in the Democratic Party sue the US government to correct history? Some variation on Libel, Slander, or theft of intellectual property?
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)speaks volumes about the presidency.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)Americans can't deal with the things we have done so we must do nothing about it.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Republicans will sacrifice the country to win.
What will we sacrifice to beat them?
Not even a few days in court?
.. even if we lose in court, a point can be made over and over and over and
..
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)--as in the case of McGovern. I've voted for the Democrat always, though over the past 40 years, they've refused more and more to work for the 99%. Yet should someone more populist than the elites like get the nomination, they are somehow not obligated to return the favor.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Even as they are being completely savaged and pointed out as the disingenuous distortions they are in the very thread that's getting the recs.
DU is but a sad shadow of what it once was.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)This is must see video, where Thom plays audio of a conversation between LBJ and Everett Dirksen (then Republican Senate leader), who admits Nixon's treason.
Jaw dropping stuff here...
Thom Hartmann: Can Republican get elected without fraud & treason?
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)How does Boehner's invite to Bibi fit in?