the foreign aides and nixon approached him and said saigon should hold to a firm position now regarding negotiations. if nixon se lekked, he ll back in their bands. so november 4th, the day before the election, johnson s at the lbj ranch. he gets a call that the bureau chief of the christian science monitor has in his hands a story saying republican interference is responsible for saigon s decision to boycott the paris peace talks and he s asking johnson for comment. johnson can make what he knows public, let the voters decide, or he can keep this information classified as then is. everything is at stake.
bui diem has notified the foreign ministry that nixon aides have approached him and told him that saigon government should hold to a firm position now regarding negotiations, if nixon is elected, he ll back th regarding negotiations. so november 4th, the day before the election, johnson was at the lbj ranch. he gets a call that the chief has in his hand of a story of republicans interference is responsible for saigon s decision to boycott the peace talk and he s asking johnson to comment. johnson can make what he knows public and let the voters decide
the monitor overseas editor. beverly deep had covered the war in vietnam for six years. this promised to be her biggest scoop yet for the christian science monitor. saigon, october 28th, there s a report here that vietnamese a washington sam has notified the foreign ministry that nixon aides have approached him and told him the saigon government should hold to a firm position now regarding negotiations. if nixon is elected he ll back the government and their demands. so november 4th, the day before the election, johnson s at the lbj ranch. he gets a call that the bureau chief of the christian science monitor has in his hands a story saying republican interference
ambassador to washington bu bui diem has notified the foreign ministry that nixon aides have approached him and told him that saigon government should hold to a firm position now regarding negotiations, if government in their demands. so, november 4 the day before the election. johnson is at the lbj ranch. had gets a call that the bureau chief of the kris chance science monitor has in his hands a story saying republican interference is responsible for saigon s decision to boycott the paris peace talks. sp he s asking johnson for comment. johnson can make what he knows public. and let the voters decide. or he can keep this information
losers, the political cost benefit of pushing something really big? how does the president decide whether or not it s worth it? you would think that a president is moved to pass big legislation so it looks as though he s doing something important. but lyndon johnson for instance in 1965 passed this hugely important voting rights act allowing everyone to vote. you know, important constitutional protections. and he probably paid for that big time in the 1966 mid terms. he lost dozens of seats. it wasn t quite as bad as 2010. but after election day when they lost all of those seats, southern governors came down to the lbj ranch and they begged him saying, no more civil rights legislation. we can t stand any more of this, this is going to make us lose and to johnson s credit, he didn t listen. he knew when he signed the civil rights legislation that it was going to have a devastating effect on him and his party. at the polls. he famously said when i sign these bills i m giving the so