"If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve . ." Odder still he had the goods on Nixon backroom dealing with the S Vietnamese via our old friend Henry. S Vietnamese would agree to scuttle Johnson's peace talks in exchange for a better deal after the election. Basically treason. Johnson had been in politics long enough to know how to leak a story to the press yet chose not to. He could have easily won the election and secured peace in Vietnam. Didn't want to reveal that the CIA was bugging offices in Vietnam? On whose behalf? Ken Burns again. "Vietnam."
"If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve . ." Odder still he had the goods on Nixon backroom dealing with the S Vietnamese via our old friend Henry. S Vietnamese would agree to scuttle Johnson's peace talks in exchange for a better deal after the election. Basically treason. Johnson had been in politics long enough to know how to leak a story to the press yet chose not to. He could have easily won the election and secured peace in Vietnam. Didn't want to reveal that the CIA was bugging offices in Vietnam? On whose behalf? Ken Burns again. "Vietnam."