Grasshoppers,
I have a 5 star book recommendation for you. It is Luke Nichter's newly published book The Year that Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. Nichter's book is a must-read!
You can find this book on Amazon. The "collusion" part of this book is not that Nixon was colluding with the South Vietnamese to not agree to a peace deal with North Vietnam, but rather that LYNDON JOHNSON AND RICHARD NIXON colluded to make sure that the pitiful LBJ-bootlicking beta male Hubert H. Humphrey would lose the 1968 presidential election.
It is just another example of what a classic narcissistic deceiver sneaky Lyndon Johnson was.
Clark Clifford said that LBJ wanted Nixon to win the election and this is because LBJ knew that Nixon would keep murdering and napalming and bombing those poor Vietnamese in the service of a South Vietnam dictatorship which the USA pretended was a legitimate government.
There are so many examples in this book of LBJ undercutting, abusing and crapping on the head of HHH. Johnson had to kind of publicly pretend he was for beta male loser Humphrey in public, but in private LBJ and Nixon had a non-aggression pact, based on Nixon's total support for LBJ's "kill the Vietnamese" and have no bombing halt policy.
Pathetic little shrimp Hubert Humphrey was begging for a bombing halt in Vietnam because he thought it might help his campaign. LBJ was like, no, we will keep killing Vietnamese and if that kills your campaign that is preferable with me, I prefer Tricky Dick because he will keep bombing and napalming those poor little brown peasants.
The other thing Luke Nichter proves is that the H.R. Haldemann notes IN NO WAY prove that Nixon was using Anna Chenault to lean on the South Vietnamese to not negotiate with the North Vietnamese. The "colluding" that was going on was between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon who worked as a team to DEFEAT Hubert Humphrey. LBJ just could not be public about this because of his status in the Democratic party, so he had to be sneaky and he made sure to undercut HHH every step of the way.
Have you ever read those stories of a wife slowly poisoning her husband with arsenic? That is what daddy LBJ was doing to Humphrey all during 1968 - and it worked! The only real thing propping up HHH was massive amounts of union support.
It is a fabulous book. Run as fast as you can to get and read a copy of Luke Nichter's new book on the 1968 election.
Sincerely,
Robert Morrow aka "Master Po"
512-306-1510
“The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths that continue to muddy our understanding of that election year. . . . Nichter’s book stands out for its clear, direct prose and the scrupulous research on which it’s based.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of the campaign.
Nichter chronicles how the evangelist Billy Graham met with Johnson after the president’s attempt to reenter the race was stymied by his own party, and offered him a deal: Nixon, if elected, would continue Johnson’s Vietnam War policy and also not oppose his Great Society, if Johnson would soften his support for Humphrey. Johnson agreed.
Nichter also shows that Johnson was far more active in the campaign than has previously been described; that Humphrey’s resurgence in October had nothing to do with his changing his position on the war; that Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” has been misunderstood, since he hardly even campaigned there; and that Wallace’s appeal went far beyond the South and anticipated today’s Republican populism. This eye-opening account of the political calculations and maneuvering that decided this fiercely fought election reshapes our understanding of a key moment in twentieth-century American history.
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