hacking. about vladimir putin s involvement. and a similar reluctance on the president s part about just how political this might be perceived to be. yeah. and there are certainly echos, there was a great picture in the new york times a few weeks back. it was a picture of one of the computer sevenervers that had b hacked standing next to a file cabinet from the democratic national committee broken into during the watergate ex kcavatkn the 1970s. this idea of flirting with the enemy on the eve of an election is it s stunning in some ways and in other ways it s scary. john farrell, the book is richard nixon a life coming out march, say it again? march 28th. march 28th. we ll be at the bookstore. jack, thank you very much for joining us with this. really appreciate it. my pleasure.
paris. we got to get them to paris or you can t have a peace. he mentioned their good friend, everett dirksen at the beginning of their conversation, republican senator. lyndon johnson privately said to leverett dirksen that this is treason. those were his words. this is treason. that s what the president thought. he said, i know. richard nixon did not just help prolong the war through the election season of 1968. he kept it going for five years as president costing the united states another 28,000 lives. joining us now, john farrell, the author of the upcoming book, richard nixon the life. jack, thank you very much for joining us tonight. your first interview about this discoverry which you just published. first of all, when s the book coming out? we can t wait. march 28th. march 28th. okay. i m going to be at the bookstore. so this you have many discoveries in the haldeman
the broad outlines of this story have been known for years now, the names of the key players have been known, but with jack ferrell has discovered and reported in yesterday s new york times for the first time are nixon s own words about the scheme. the monkey wrench. jack ferrell has found nixon campaign aide haldeman s nates about a conversation with nixon about the scheme, notes, keep working on south vietnam any other way to monkey wrench it. as rumor spread that nixon might be interfering with the talks, he got very worried about this, knowing that it was a crime. he called president johnson. and he lied to him. about what he was doing. when lyndon johnson confronted richard nixon about this. hello? mr. president, this is dic nixon. yes, dick. i want to let you know i got
already 30,000 american war dead to the peace talks. richard nixon got word to the south vietnamese to resist any peace negotiation. nixon feared any breakthrough in the peace negotiations would give the election to hubert humphrey. the broad outlines of this story have been known for years now, the names of the key players have been known, but with jack ferrell has discovered and reported in yesterday s new york times for the first time are nixon s own words about the scheme. the monkey wrench. jack ferrell has found nixon campaign aidhaldeman s nates about a conversation with nixon about the scheme, notes, keep working on south vietnam any other way to monkey wrench it. as rumor spread that nixon might be interfering with the talks, he got very worried about this, knowing that it was a crime. he called president johnson.
computer servers that had been hacked standing next to a file cabinet from the democratic national committee broken into during the watergate exka vad in the 1970s. this idea of flirting with the enemy on the eve of an election is it s stunning in some ways and in other ways it s scary. john farrell, the book is richard nixon a life coming out march, say it again? march 28th. march 28th. we ll be at the bookstore. jack, thank you very much for joining us with this. really appreciate it. my pleasure. breaking trump transition now. nbc news has confirmed that donald trump will nominate lawyer robert lithizer, he served as the u.s. deputy trade administrator under ronald reagan whose trade policies were exactly the opposite of