LIFE MAGAZINE NOV 15, 1968 RICHARD NIXON ELECTED

Description: Payment | Shipping LIFE MAGAZINE NOV 15, 1968 RICHARD NIXON ELECTED_VIETNAM OCTOBER SURPRISE" LIFE MAGAZINE NOV 15, 1968 RICHARD NIXON ELECTED PRESIDENT_VIETNAM OCTOBER SURPRISE THE NIXON ERA BEGINS BEATLES MOVIE THE YELLOW SUBMARINE BOOK REVIEW THE BOGEYMAN BY GEORGE PLIMPTON VIETNAM BOMBING HALT SILENCE BEYOND THE DMZ BUT NO PROGRESS IN PARIS NBC NEWSMAN EDWARD NEWMAN SCIENTOLOGY GORDON PARKS RETURN OF THE PRODIGY FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT DOW LIQUID TIRE CHAIN FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT 1969 FORD CONTINENTAL MARK III FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT PHILCO COLOR TV FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT AMERICAN MOTORS AMBASSADOR FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT CHEVROLET PICKUP TRUCK FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT 1969 FORD TORINO FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT MORTON TV DINNERS FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT FORD CLUB WAGON, BRONCO, RANCHERO, CAMPER SPECIAL FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT KODAK FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT COCA COLA FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT DELCO FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT VOLKSWAGEN VAN TRANSPORTER FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT BEEFEATER FULL PAGE COLOR ADVERTISEMENT POLAROID COLOR PACK CAMERA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia During the 1960s, Nixon had been impressed by a paper he had read by Professor Martin Anderson of Columbia University. Anderson had argued in the paper for an end to the draft and the creation of an all-volunteer army.[66] Nixon also saw ending the draft as an effective way to undermine the anti-Vietnam war movement, since he believed affluent college-age youths would stop protesting the war once their own possibility of having to fight in it was gone.[67] Humphrey, meanwhile, promised to continue and expand the Great Society welfare programs started by President Johnson, and to continue the Johnson Administration's "War on Poverty." He also promised to continue the efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and the Supreme Court, in promoting the expansion of civil rights and civil liberties for minority groups. However, Humphrey also felt constrained for most of his campaign in voicing any opposition to the Vietnam War policies of President Johnson, due to his fear that Johnson would reject any peace proposals he made and undermine his campaign. As a result, early in his campaign Humphrey often found himself the target of anti-war protestors, some of whom heckled and disrupted his campaign rallies. Humphrey's comeback and the October surprise After the Democratic Convention in late August, Humphrey trailed Nixon by double digits in most polls, and his chances seemed hopeless. According to Time magazine, "The old Democratic coalition was disintegrating, with untold numbers of blue-collar workers responding to Wallace's blandishments, Negroes threatening to sit out the election, liberals disaffected over the Vietnam War, the South lost. The war chest was almost empty, and the party's machinery, neglected by Lyndon Johnson, creaked in disrepair." Calling for "the politics of joy," and using the still-powerful labor unions as his base, Humphrey fought back. In order to distance himself from Johnson and to take advantage of the Democratic plurality in voter registration, Humphrey stopped being identified in ads as "Vice-President Hubert Humphrey," instead being labelled "Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey." Humphrey attacked Wallace as a racist bigot who appealed to the darker impulses of Americans. Wallace had been rising in the polls, and peaked at 21% in September, but his momentum stopped after he selected Curtis LeMay as his running mate. Curtis LeMay's suggestion of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Vietnam conjured up memories of the 1964 Goldwater campaign. Labor unions also undertook a major effort to win back union members who were supporting Wallace, with substantial success. Polls that showed Wallace winning almost one-half of union members in the summer of 1968 showed a sharp decline in his union support as the campaign progressed. As election day approached and Wallace's support in the North and Midwest began to wane, Humphrey finally began to climb in the polls. In October, Humphreywho was rising sharply in the polls due to the collapse of the Wallace votebegan to distance himself publicly from the Johnson administration on the Vietnam War, calling for a bombing halt. The key turning point for Humphrey's campaign came when President Johnson officially announced a bombing halt, and even a possible peace deal, the weekend before the election. The "Halloween Peace" gave Humphrey's campaign a badly needed boost. In addition, Senator Eugene McCarthy finally endorsed Humphrey in late October after previously refusing to do so, and by election day the polls were reporting a dead heat. Nixon campaign sabotage of peace talks The Nixon campaign had anticipated a possible "October surprise," a peace agreement produced by the Paris negotiations, to boost Humphrey and thwarted any last-minute chances of a "Halloween Peace." Nixon told campaign aide and his future White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to put a "monkey wrench" into an early end to the war.[70] Johnson was enraged and said that Nixon had "blood on his hands" and that Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen agreed with Johnson that such action was "treason." Defense Secretary Clark Clifford considered the moves an illegal violation of the Logan Act. A former director of the Nixon Library called it a "covert action" which "laid the skulduggery of his presidency." Bryce Harlow, former Eisenhower White House staff member, claimed to have "a double agent working in the White House....I kept Nixon informed." Harlow and Nixon's future National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who was friendly with both campaigns and guaranteed a job in either a Humphrey or Nixon administration, separately predicted Johnson's "bombing halt": "The word is out that we are making an effort to throw the election to Humphrey. Nixon has been told of it," Democratic senator George Smathers informed Johnson. Nixon asked Anna Chennault to be his "channel to Mr. Thieu" in order to advise him to refuse participation in the talks, in what is sometimes described as the "Anna Chennault Affair." Thieu was promised a better deal under a Nixon administration.[76][75] Chennault agreed and periodically reported to John Mitchell that Thieu had no intention of attending a peace conference. On November 2, Chennault informed the South Vietnamese ambassador: "I have just heard from my boss in Albuquerque who says his boss [Nixon] is going to win. And you tell your boss [Thieu] to hold on a while longer." In 1997, Chennault admitted that "I was constantly in touch with Nixon and Mitchell." The effort also involved Texas Senator John Tower and Kissinger, who traveled to Paris on behalf of the Nixon campaign. William Bundy stated that Kissinger obtained "no useful inside information" from his trip to Paris, and "almost any experienced Hanoi watcher might have come to the same conclusion". While Kissinger may have "hinted that his advice was based on contacts with the Paris delegation," this sort of "self-promotion....is at worst a minor and not uncommon practice, quite different from getting and reporting real secrets." Johnson learned of the Nixon-Chennault effort because the NSA was intercepting communications in Vietnam. In response, Johnson ordered NSA surveillance of Chennault and wire-tapped the South Vietnamese embassy and members of the Nixon campaign. He did not leak the information to the public because he did not want to "shock America" with the revelation, nor reveal that the NSA was intercepting communications in Vietnam. Johnson did make information available to Humphrey, but at this point Humphrey thought he was going to win the election, so he did not reveal the information to the public. Humphrey later regretted this as a mistake. The South Vietnamese government withdrew from peace negotiations, and Nixon publicly offered to go to Saigon to help the negotiations. A promising "peace bump" ended up in "shambles" for the Democratic Party. Payment Back to Top I accept the following forms of payment: PayPal Shipping & Handling Back to Top US Shipping(FREE) USPS Media Mail® International ShippingPlease check eBay's Shipping & Payment tab USPS First-Class Mail International (Worldwide) FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager.Make your listings stand out with FREE Vendio custom templates! 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