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Liar. he was evil. his actions may have cost some 30,000 lives. is that fair to say? >> we cant make that claim. dont know how important it is. but there is an argument to be made. jacks book, ive read it and wrote a blurb for it. its incredible. the amazing life of nixon. but dont know if could have been a peace there. william bundy working for the johnson administration for negotiations said were not sure whether that matters that much. but there is an argument to be made its criminal activity...

-- how much did this influence the south vietnamese government which was having its own internal political battles and so how great a chance was lost? the saddest thing that i found was a note in the lyndon johnson library from his national security adviser which said almost mournfully to lyndon johnson, this is the best chance weve had since 1961 to get out of this mess. this has been very painful. im here with your generals. we think we should go ahead, we think with determination we can make ...

Advisers believed this was -- this was more than viable. they thought this was a potential breakthrough. >> and jack, a final point here. why didnt lyndon johnson reveal publicly what he knew about this before the election? >> they had a long discussion about that. some of his aides urged him to. but there were two reasons. the more nefarious reasons was that nixon had been -- not nixon, but his envoys had been wiretapped and eavesdropped and followed around and would look bad for the american p...

Thought. he said, i know. richard nixon did not just help prolong the war through the election season of 1968. he kept it going for five years as president costing the united states another 28,000 lives. joining us now, john farrell, the author of the upcoming book, "richard nixon the life." jack, thank you very much for joining us tonight. your first interview about this discoverry which you just published. first of all, whens the book coming out? we cant wait. >> march 28th. >> march 28th. oka...

Hacking. about vladimir putins involvement. and a similar reluctance on the presidents part about just how political this might be perceived to be. >> yeah. and there are certainly echos, there was a great picture in "the new york times" a few weeks back. it was a picture of one of the computer sevenervers that had b hacked standing next to a file cabinet from the democratic national committee broken into during the watergate ex kcavatkn the 1970s. this idea of flirting with the enemy on the eve...

Paris. we got to get them to paris or you cant have a peace. >> he mentioned their good friend, everett dirksen at the beginning of their conversation, republican senator. lyndon johnson privately said to leverett dirksen that this is treason. those were his words. this is treason. thats what the president thought. he said, i know. richard nixon did not just help prolong the war through the election season of 1968. he kept it going for five years as president costing the united states another 28...

The broad outlines of this story have been known for years now, the names of the key players have been known, but with jack ferrell has discovered and reported in yesterdays "new york times" for the first time are nixons own words about the scheme. the monkey wrench. jack ferrell has found nixon campaign aide haldemans nates about a conversation with nixon about the scheme, notes, "keep working on south vietnam any other way to monkey wrench it." as rumor spread that nixon might be interfering w...

Already 30,000 american war dead to the peace talks. richard nixon got word to the south vietnamese to resist any peace negotiation. nixon feared any breakthrough in the peace negotiations would give the election to hubert humphrey. the broad outlines of this story have been known for years now, the names of the key players have been known, but with jack ferrell has discovered and reported in yesterdays "new york times" for the first time are nixons own words about the scheme. the monkey wrench....

Computer servers that had been hacked standing next to a file cabinet from the democratic national committee broken into during the watergate exka vad in the 1970s. this idea of flirting with the enemy on the eve of an election is -- its stunning in some ways and in other ways its scary. >> john farrell, the book is "richard nixon a life" coming out march, say it again? >> march 28th. >> march 28th. well be at the bookstore. jack, thank you very much for joining us with this. really appreciate i...