And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered 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 Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its 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 theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
haldeman. anything rn, richard nixon, can do? what did he do to monkey wrench within the negotiations? he had envoy, woman named anna chennault, connected to the south vietnamese government in saigon, and she sent a message, several messages through the south vietnamese embassy in washington, telling them that the nixon administration would play a much nicer role, a much more lenient role on the south vietnamese government than a humphrey administration would. and they found it compelling. the missing factor that i chanced upon doing research doing research in yor ba linda, were notes from haldeman that show that nixon not only countenanced it, but directed it. something he and his supporters denied for 50 years. talk about haldeman but
the peace talks between north and south vietnam but found evidence that richard nixon intervened to mess up the negotiations. you recovered records. including this note. any other way to monkey wrench it? alderman. anything rn, richard nixon, can do? what did he do? he had envoy, woman named anna chinault, connected to the government in saigon and sent messages telling them that the nixon administration would play a nicer more lenient role on the south vietnamese government than a humphrey administration would and they found it compelling. missing factor that i chanced upon doing research in yorba
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 presidenti candidate agnewo 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? that s one way to get kind of paranoid that maybe your intelligence agencies might turn on you or they re after you. that they re a political actor that needs to be managed. that s exactly what happened. in the months before president-elect nixon took office, he was so skeptical of intelligence agencies in the united states government that he refused to accept the intelligence briings offered by the outgoing administration. he didn t take a single
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