Nixon kept Vietnam War going for his own political gain

He got away with it. How many would still be alive today if he hadn't? Some say it is the number of servicemen and women killed afterwards, but how do you count them? Is it just the number of fallen names recorded on the panels of the Vietnam Wall since that horrible day he made an arrangement to keep the war going on? No, no justice in that number. Do you add in the number of veterans that died of their wounds? Closer but still not there. How about the ones that died of Agent Orange sprayed afterwards? Still not there yet because they are still dying of it. Then you'd have to add in their children born with it in their bodies. How about the ones that committed suicide added in? Still not there yet because they are still committing suicide. How about those that ended up homeless and died on the streets? Still not there yet because they are still dying on the streets and still dying from illnesses caused by being homeless, caused by years of being abandoned to the streets by politicians passing them off from one generation to another. What about adding in the ones that died because they had PTSD and the stress on their hearts was just too much so they passed away at a very young age? Still not there yet because all of that is still happening today. So no, the treason committed by Nixon did not end in taking lives. We just stopped caring.

LBJ Tapes Show Richard Nixon May Have Committed Treason By Sabotaging Vietnam Peace Talks
International Business Times
By Eric Brown
March 17 2013

Newly released tapes recorded during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency have confirmed long-held rumors that in 1968, then-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon worked to sabotage Vietnam War peace talks.

The LBJ tapes were recently declassified and released by the Johnson library in Austin, Texas. According to the BBC’s summary of the tapes, not only did Nixon possibly commit treason, but LBJ knew about it and decided not to expose him in the closing days of an election that Nixon barely won.

While Nixon became infamous for his tendency to record nearly every conversation during his presidency, which proved to be his undoing, he wasn’t the first commander in chief to document everything so thoroughly. In fact, Nixon seems to have gotten the idea to keep an extensive set of recordings from LBJ himself. John F. Kennedy also taped some of his meetings.

In the summer of 1968, the Paris peace talks were under way, working to find a diplomatic solution to the Vietnam War. While the talks seemed to be going well, by October, South Vietnam had dropped out, just as Johnson was about to negotiate an end to all bombings in North Vietnam. The Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, belatedly called for a bombing halt, and closed the gap with Nixon in the final days.
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