{"id":2695,"date":"2017-07-21T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2017-07-21T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:37:15","slug":"nixons-vietnam-treachery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"Nixon\u2019s Vietnam Treachery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Now we know Nixon lied. A newfound cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, his closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign\u2019s efforts to scuttle the peace talks, which he feared could give his opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an edge in the 1968 election. On <a title=\"Haldeman Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/12\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/haldeman-notes.html\">Oct. 22, 1968<\/a>, he ordered Haldeman to \u201cmonkey wrench\u201d the initiative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html?_r=0\">Nixon\u2019s Vietnam Treachery &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johnson\u2019s closest aides urged him to unmask Nixon\u2019s actions. But on a Nov. 4 conference call, they concluded that they could not go public because, among other factors, they lacked the \u201cabsolute proof,\u201d as Defense Secretary Clark Clifford put it, of Nixon\u2019s direct involvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we know Nixon lied. A newfound cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, his closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign\u2019s efforts to scuttle the peace talks, which he feared could give his opponent, Vice President Hubert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[110,234],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-history","tag-nixon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}