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a catastrophic war in vietnam. just a few days before the election, he looked up the johnson admin station was on the cusp of securing a negotiation to end the war. at the last minute, the nixon campaign opened up a secret back channel in order to get them to pull out of the peace talks. on november 2nd, with just three days to go until americans went to the polls, president suddenly announced that the south vietnamese government would not attend the proposed talks after all. a representative of the nixon campaign, at the candidate s personal direction, had secretly contacted the saigon government, urging him to stay away from the talks. promising that once nixon was elected, he would drive a harder bargain with hanoi than humphrey did. at work, with the peace talks stalled nixon won the election. he prolonged the war in order to get elected. the delay, and nixon s

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