But this history isn’t gonna go the way you think it is.
LBJ just days before the 68 election which Nixon narrowly won, found out that the Nixon campaign had been conspiring with Saigon to stall the peace negotiations, which if they progressed without Republican meddling, would significantly have boosted Hubert Humphries prospects for winning.
The charges against the Nixon campaign would have amounted to treason.
The Nixon campaign wanted to win the presidency so badly they were willing to prolong the war and contribute to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam and Cambodia, which of course Kissinger and Nixon illegally authorized the carpet bombing of, violating international law, as well as thousands more Americans.
LBJ decided to keep all of it secret because even before the election, they could’ve released the surveillance info from the FBI, but on the chance that Nixon would still have won, LBJ believed that it would’ve done too much damage to the country to have the Nixon presidency swamped in scandal. Turns out that that happened anyway a few years later with Watergate. Nixon never actually trusted the American people to elect him without either treasonously cheating.
so the Democrats fell on their sword for the good of the country and protected a Republican “victory“.
Recall that Ronald Reagan also had his campaign working with the Iranians to stall the negotiations to release the hostages so that Carter had a much smaller chance of winning.
recall that Al Gore simply conceded the election even though he won the popular vote and a consortium of newspapers found that had the recount continued in Florida, Gore would’ve won the state and the electoral college and election.
it’s just unbelievable to me how cynical and underhanded the minority political party actually is, from Nixon onward especially. Yes. A minority party whose policies a majority or supermajority of the country did not and does not support.
the GOP has not believed in democracy for over five decades. And had actively worked to undermine it.
LBJ just days before the 68 election which Nixon narrowly won, found out that the Nixon campaign had been conspiring with Saigon to stall the peace negotiations, which if they progressed without Republican meddling, would significantly have boosted Hubert Humphries prospects for winning.
The charges against the Nixon campaign would have amounted to treason.
The Nixon campaign wanted to win the presidency so badly they were willing to prolong the war and contribute to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam and Cambodia, which of course Kissinger and Nixon illegally authorized the carpet bombing of, violating international law, as well as thousands more Americans.
LBJ decided to keep all of it secret because even before the election, they could’ve released the surveillance info from the FBI, but on the chance that Nixon would still have won, LBJ believed that it would’ve done too much damage to the country to have the Nixon presidency swamped in scandal. Turns out that that happened anyway a few years later with Watergate. Nixon never actually trusted the American people to elect him without either treasonously cheating.
so the Democrats fell on their sword for the good of the country and protected a Republican “victory“.
Recall that Ronald Reagan also had his campaign working with the Iranians to stall the negotiations to release the hostages so that Carter had a much smaller chance of winning.
recall that Al Gore simply conceded the election even though he won the popular vote and a consortium of newspapers found that had the recount continued in Florida, Gore would’ve won the state and the electoral college and election.
it’s just unbelievable to me how cynical and underhanded the minority political party actually is, from Nixon onward especially. Yes. A minority party whose policies a majority or supermajority of the country did not and does not support.
the GOP has not believed in democracy for over five decades. And had actively worked to undermine it.
It’s Not Just Trump — LBJ Took Classified Documents Too
Johnson wanted to stop Americans from learning about Nixon’s Vietnam treason and his own lawless surveillance.
theintercept.com