Wanted, ambitious individual for leadership position.

Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment.

Challenges, many.

Rewards, numerous, failure, possible.

Your employer, the American people.

The few chosen have been the presidents.

It is now clear that Richard Nixon and close aides conspired to sabotage peace talks to getting elected in 1968.

They massively, directly and covertly interfered in a major diplomatic negotiation.

The most sensitive, not only going on at the time, but probably one of the most

important negotiations in American diplomatic history.

In 1968 Richard Nixon is the Republican nominee for President.

Hubert Humphrey is the Democratic Vice President

and eventual nominee.

And Nixon realizes that Johnson,

President Johnson's efforts to bring North Vietnam to the peace table and to begin an end to the Vietnam

conflict, Nixon realizes that these efforts are going to be bad for his bid for the presidency.

And so he makes a secret overture to South Vietnam,

to discourage them from going to the peace talks and instead to wait until he has secured

the presidency.

And it's another I don't speak German bonus episode.

And it's the latest installment in our ongoing because the election is still ongoing,

at least at the time of recording. and it probably it seems like it will just be ongoing forever

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