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co-conspirators. sigh began s man in washington. then there s richard nixon. by 1968 the presidential want to be had lost his last two elections. in 1968 he wanted that presidency so bad, he was willing to do whatever was necessary. this is twice a big a crowd than we had in 1960, and the result is going to be twice as good. back on fifth avenue, we have three men in a hotel room. a veteran politician plotting his comeback. the man running his political operation. and south vietnam s man in washington. plus one lone woman, anna chenault. i have the opportunity to not only talk to the leaders, but the people. nixon knew that anna chenault
u.s. intelligence intercepts that cable. once president johnson gets wind of the republican interference. he orders the fbi to wiretap the vietnamese embassy. october 30th, the fbi sends president johnson a classified memo. ambassador received a call from an unidentified woman, believed to be anna chenault. johnson is flabbergasted. he didn t see this coming. she s young and attractive. she s a pretty good looking girl, and she s around town. and she is warning them to not get pulled in on this johnson move.
party for another term as your president. johnson s speech shocked the world. the president would not run for re-election. and here was his offer to finally end the war. for presidential candidate richard nixon, lbj s peace proposal was a political nightmare. nixon needed the democratic party to own the horror show of the vietnam war, not to solve it. and the steel butterfly, anna chenault, she saw lbj s proposed bombing halt as a military blunder. every time we stop the bombing, only give the other side the opportunity to regrow the military instiation. the sooner we win this war, the better off we will be. richard nixon and anna chenault, their views were closely aligned. definitely no crime in that. what if they went beyond words to deeds? what if they were to join hands in an effort to derail the quest
process and he s ordering haldeman to make sure anna chenault stays active. nixon had always denied any personal knowledge of anna chenault s behavior, and wow! all of a sudden, here he is in haldeman s notes saying, keep chenault working on the south vietnamese. anyway else we can monkey wrench johnson s initiatives. it s a whole battle plan. the very next day after nixon orders his chief of staff to monkey wrench it, to keep anna schenn at on the job. telling saigon to not go along with the peace talks. he wires his superiors back home in saigon. he says this, many republican friends have contacted me and encouraged us to stand firm.