got us in this war and they are afraid to get us out. richard nixon is behind the effort to sabotage peace. what we do or fail to do can determine the future of peace and freedom for the balance of this century. tens of thousands of young americans and vietnamese died. that s what was at stake. it was horrendous. it was treason by any standard. this wealthy and connected asian-american woman could change history. lbj knew there was collusion. it s definitely a smoking gun as regards richard nixon s direct involvement and actions. they re contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war, and they oughtn t to be doing this. this is treason. it s november 3rd, just two
a novel by the bill of. it s on our list of one hundred german must reads and be sure has translated is often puzzling dark works plus she s rendered in english the books of clamens meyer who caused a stir with his stories about just after german reunification the translator really went the extra mile for miers latest novel. the hardest book to play so i managed a place with. bricks and mortar because it s very very long and it s about six lakh and we still have an american publisher. chip. because it s amazing. she spent a year looking for an english publisher which needed another year to get the money together and then she started translating which presented some challenges. and we thought oh nine a glue to oughtn t it s not a language taught and then an english we get oh no gerry s red hot and good to
scales at a time when america seemed to be coming apart at the seems. i m not talking about 2016. no, this time the year was 1968. got us in this war and they are afraid to get us out. richard nixon is in the effort to sabotage peace. what we do or fail to do can determine the peace and freedom for the balance of this century. 10s of thousands of americans and vietnamese died. that s what it was at stake. it was treason by any standard? woman could change history. lbj knew there was collusion. it is definitely a smoking gun as regard richard nixon s direct involvement in actions. contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war. and they oughtn t to be doing this. this is treason.
election. when you hear johnson talking to dirksen. you hear in johnson this master politician who s used threatening tactics throughout his political career to achieve ends. classic johnson. get to the head of the republican party to try to get nixon to do this. i m reading their hand. i don t want to get this in the campaign. and they oughtn t to be doing this. this is treason. i know. they are contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war. that is a mistake. and it is a damn bad mistake. you just tell them that their people are messing around in this thing and if they don t want it on the front pages they better quit it. he s holding up the prospect of going public with this explosive story. at the same time you can hear johnson s palpable anger and
it is. it s up on the screen. the state bar of texas. that was back in 1986. she has been dogged by this story for a while. does this change anything for her, you think? i think it does somewhat. she didn t handle it well at all, not that you can handle things that oughtn t to have been there in the first place. she had family lore that she probably had some ancestry there. let s assume she was telling us the truth when she said i wasn t trying to do anything special. i just was proud of it. but she kept on and kept on, and people have the right to wonder about that. were you just using it for your political advantage? and then when she didn t immediately renounce it and say, you re right. i shouldn t put this because i can t prove this, she doubles down. she tries to prove it. no. she comes up with something that s terrible, and she digs herself a deeper hole. yeah. so you can think if you want that she wasn t quite coming clean with us to begin with or not, but she didn t handl