Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson’s telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations – he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks… but said nothing.
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The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon’s ‘treason’
Posted in Asia, Created Terror, History, North America, Politics
Also tagged Chennault, Nixon, Republicans, US, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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Shocking New Evidence Reveals Depths of ‘Treason’ and ‘Treachery’ of Watergate and Iran-Contra
Watergate and Iran-Contra were, in part at least, extensions of the original crimes, which involved dirty dealings to secure the immense power of the presidency.
Posted in Arms Trade, Drugwar, Intelligence, Latin America, Middle East, North America, The Octopus
Also tagged Arafat, Bush, Cocaine, E. Howard Hunt, FBI, Gary Webb, hostage, Iran, Iran Contra, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Nicaragua, Nixon, October Surprise, Oliver North, Palestine, Pentagon Papers, Plumbers, Reagan, US, Vietnam War, Watergate, X Envelope
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How the Right’s Smear Machine Started
Yet, whenever called on this ugliness, conservatives insist that they are the real victims, picked on by the Left. This destructive and whiny dynamic has existed at least since the late 1960s
Posted in Military Industrial Complex, North America, Politics
Also tagged Bush, Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, Nixon, October Surprise, profiteers, Reagan, Republicans, Saddam Hussein, US, Valerie Plame, Vietnam War, Watergate, Whitewater
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LBJ’s ‘X’ File on Nixon’s ‘Treason’
In the dusty files of Lyndon Johnson’s presidential library in Austin, Texas, once secret documents and audiotapes tell a dark and tragic story of how Richard Nixon’s team secured the White House in 1968 by sabotaging peace talks that might have ended the Vietnam War four years earlier
Posted in Asia, Created Terror, Middle East, North America, Politics
Also tagged Chennault, Ellsberg, Iran, Nixon, October Surprise, Pentagon Papers, Plumbers, Reagan, Republicans, US, Vietnam War, Watergate, X Envelope
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From Nixon’s treason to Bush’s idiocy, lying about war never grows old
Rachel Maddow: On lying to get the US into war. LBJ/RMN and scuttling the peace talks in Vietnam – treason. Talks with Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the Iraq war and the lies that led to that disaster.