a secret plan formed by Richard Nixon’s campaign to collude with the South Vietnamese government during the 1968 presidential campaign and sabotage Vietnam peace talks in Paris to ensure a Nixon victory.
This previously undiscovered meeting means the collusion, involving senior political and foreign-policy staffers, was part of the campaign from the start, transforming our understanding of the Chennault affair and its role in Nixon’s victory.
According to handwritten entries in her personal calendar, Chennault introduced Diem to leading figures in the Nixon campaign on Feb. 16 at Nixon’s apartment in New York, and “met John Mitchell [for the] first time.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...-before-michael-flynn/?utm_term=.d73d136a0679
This previously undiscovered meeting means the collusion, involving senior political and foreign-policy staffers, was part of the campaign from the start, transforming our understanding of the Chennault affair and its role in Nixon’s victory.
According to handwritten entries in her personal calendar, Chennault introduced Diem to leading figures in the Nixon campaign on Feb. 16 at Nixon’s apartment in New York, and “met John Mitchell [for the] first time.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...-before-michael-flynn/?utm_term=.d73d136a0679
