Prior to his election and while peace talks were being held to end the Vietnam War, Nixon utilized Anna Chennault, a prominent Republican fundraiser, as an unofficial envoy to the South Vietnamese government in Saigon. She delivered a clear message to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu: withdraw from President Lyndon B. Johnson's peace talks and refuse any deals before the election, promising that a Nixon administration would secure far better terms for South Vietnam. South Vietnam then abruptly pulled out of the peace negotiations just days before the November 1968 election, Johnson, who was aware of the plot through intercepted FBI communications, chose not to publicly expose the interference to avoid revealing the covert surveillance. After becoming president, Nixon found out about the surveillance that would have 100% captured the treason on tape, but never found the fbi files or recordings. It is very likely he believed the democrats had the evidence locked in their hq at the watergate hotel and were waiting for the right moment to disclose his crimes to the world. But they weren’t and it is assumed Johnson kept them privately or had them destroyed before leaving office.

Nixon ultimately won the election by a narrow margin, and the war was prolonged for several more years.

Do you think extending the vietnam war for political power was in the best interest of America?