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and it starts with copper, the mineral copper. there s copper in brass. there s copper in bronze. the statue of liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. that s about the thickness of two pennies. pennies themselves used to be copper, but now they re just copper-covered zinc, which sort of seems sad. it makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. we use copper for wiring. there is a massive global appetite for copper. and the world s largest producer of copper is an american company. it s a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the mining company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. and the freeport mining company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. but they are a gigantic firm. and they re a global operation. in south america, they mine copper in chile, ....
Them a much better deal. nixon s intermediary was caught on tape actually telling south vietnamese, hang on through the election, hang on, basely don t end the war, we need the war to keep going until the election. hold on until you get nixon. and those communications to the south vietnamese worked. i mean, at least the politics worked for nixon. nixon got elected. he always denied he d done anything to fro long the war for his own political purposes, denied he d done anything to destroy that chance at peace in vietnam. always denied that to the end. now we know his denials were total bullpucky. author of a new nixon biography, historian john farrell, uncovered notes from nixon s closest aide showing nixon directed his campaign to scuttle the peace talks. october 22nd, 1968, notes taken by that staffer show that nixon ....
Destroy that chance at peace in vietnam. always denied that to the end. now we know his denials were total bullpucky. author of a new nixon biography, historian john farrell, uncovered notes from nixon s closest aide showing nixon directed his campaign to scuttle the peace talks. october 22nd, 1968, notes taken by that staffer show that nixon told him to monkey wrench these efforts to start the peace negotiations. any other way to monkey wrench it? anything r.n., anything richard nixon can do? nixon also directed his vice presidential candidate agnew to threaten the cia director richard helms around these negotiations. the notes read agnew, go see helms, tell him we want the truth or he hasn t got the job. meaning he won t stay on as director of the cia once i m president unless he does what i want here. nothing like threatening the cia ....
Now we know his denials were total bullpucky. author of a new nixon biography, historian john farrell, uncovered notes from nixon s closest aide showing nixon directed his campaign to scuttle the peace talks. october 22nd, 1968, notes taken by that staffer show that nixon told him to monkey wrench these efforts to start the peace negotiations. any other way to monkey wrench it? anything r.n., anything richard nixon can do? nixon also directed his vice presidential candidate agnew to threaten the cia director richard helms around these negotiations. the notes read agnew, go see helms, tell him we want the truth or he hasn t got the job. meaning he won t stay on as director of the cia once i m president unless he does what i want here. nothing like threatening the cia director even before you take office, right? ....