Nixon Quotes
Kennedy and Nixon served in the House together, and occasionally members would contribute to the campaigns of friends of the opposite party. There was, in those days, more comity between the parties.
There was no way of reopening the investigation into the assassination without the public finding out that the CIA and FBI both had deliberately misled the Warren Commission and the House Investigating Committee in the original investigation. Nixon and other politicians who likely knew of the scandal did not want the confidence of the public eroded in this important agencies, and that was probably his motivation for the turn down rather than trying to cover up facets about the assassination itself.
Referring to Richard M. Nixon:
President Johnson was trying to organize peace talks in Paris. Nixon didn’t want a public announcement to occur before election day when he was running against Hubert Humphrey. Knowing the South Vietnamese President was reluctant to go to Paris but was under pressure from America to do so, he sent a message through Chennault that he should not accept and “hang on” as Nixon would shortly win. The South Vietnam president refused to go to Paris, Nixon won the election, and then had to cope with the continuation of the war that might well have ended before he took office. Nixon believed that he could get Russia and China to pressure Ho Chi Min to make peace. Nixon's private overtures to the South Vietnam president, violated the Logan Act which prohiited private citizens negoatioating with foreign governments. President Johnson was aware of Nixon's commission of this felony want wanted to prosecute him, but the evicence had been obtained from secret intelligene agency bugging and wiretapping both the South Vietnam Embassay in Wishington and the Presidential Palace in Vietnam the public knowledge of which would have caused a scandal. Instead, he called Nixon and warned him to stop, but the damage had already been done, and the South Vitenamese government would not go to Pariis where they would have to agree to a coalition government with the Communists. THey waited for Nixon to deliver a peace treaty which would leave them in charge of South Vietnam. In the final analysis, the South Vietnamese ended up with nothing and no participation in anything when the U. S. Withdrew and the Communists took over.
CREEP in the Nixon Campaign. He was himself a convicted Watergate conspirator. Mitchell did not approve the plan, but did not fire Liddy either.
Discussing Vice President Richard M. Nixon with a colleague:
Kissinger and Nixon had just had a meeting with Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister who had asked them to support the right of Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. Kissinger himself was Jewish and Nixon’s closest confidant about world affairs. It is not clear whether or not this was another example of Kissinger pandering to Nixon’s prejudices which he did often. See {621138} for Nixon’s reply. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released.
The memo proposed having a good novelist write a fictional novel with Nixon as the main character. The great Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck was approached for the project. See {629628} for his reaction.
