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The most dramatic instance of a foreign government messing with our politics came during the Cold War. In the final weeks of the 1968 presidential campaign, the government of South Vietnam colluded with Republicans who presented themselves as representatives of the Nixon campaign. Richard Nixon's lead over Democratic challenger Vice President Hubert Humphrey had already started to collapse when outgoing President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a halt on bombing in Vietnam and the start of serious negotiations with Hanoi and South Vietnam in Paris
Representing herself as speaking for the Nixon campaign, Republican activist Anna Chennault encouraged Saigon to say no to participating in Paris, asserting that Nixon would better defend South Vietnam than the Democrats.
Recently declassified information provides substance for years of speculation about the complicity of these political activists with Saigon. On November 2, 1968, the United States intercepted a call from Chennault, during which she reported to the South Vietnamese ambassador that she had a message from her "boss." Chennault said her "boss" wanted the Vietnamese ambassador to tell his "boss" (presumably President Nguyen Van Thieu) "hold on, we're going to win."
The implication was that the South Vietnamese should resist U.S. pressure to participate in the peace talks until after the November 5 election. Saigon held firm. On November 7, two days after Nixon won the election, U.S. intelligence overheard Saigon's assistant armed forces aide in Washington tell an unidentified caller that the South Vietnamese decision to veto participation in peace talks was designed "to help Nixon and had Saigon gone to the conference table, Humphrey would probably have won."
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Yup, the underhanded GOP is at it again. Pooootin wants a Dictator in the US. Enter Donnie...
The most dramatic instance of a foreign government messing with our politics came during the Cold War. In the final weeks of the 1968 presidential campaign, the government of South Vietnam colluded with Republicans who presented themselves as representatives of the Nixon campaign. Richard Nixon's lead over Democratic challenger Vice President Hubert Humphrey had already started to collapse when outgoing President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a halt on bombing in Vietnam and the start of serious negotiations with Hanoi and South Vietnam in Paris
Representing herself as speaking for the Nixon campaign, Republican activist Anna Chennault encouraged Saigon to say no to participating in Paris, asserting that Nixon would better defend South Vietnam than the Democrats.
Recently declassified information provides substance for years of speculation about the complicity of these political activists with Saigon. On November 2, 1968, the United States intercepted a call from Chennault, during which she reported to the South Vietnamese ambassador that she had a message from her "boss." Chennault said her "boss" wanted the Vietnamese ambassador to tell his "boss" (presumably President Nguyen Van Thieu) "hold on, we're going to win."
The implication was that the South Vietnamese should resist U.S. pressure to participate in the peace talks until after the November 5 election. Saigon held firm. On November 7, two days after Nixon won the election, U.S. intelligence overheard Saigon's assistant armed forces aide in Washington tell an unidentified caller that the South Vietnamese decision to veto participation in peace talks was designed "to help Nixon and had Saigon gone to the conference table, Humphrey would probably have won."
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Yup, the underhanded GOP is at it again. Pooootin wants a Dictator in the US. Enter Donnie...
