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Paris. we got to get them to paris or you can't 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. that's 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 28,000 lives. joining us now, john farrell, the author of the upcoming book, "richard nixon the life...