![]() ![]() (The following recording, and a lot of the work we’re going to do in this Whistlestop, is the result of the amazing work they do at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, where they’ve transcribed and put together recordings from the Johnson era. ![]() It’s 9:18 in the evening, and he’s explaining to Dirksen what the stakes are for political opponents to delay this peace deal for the purposes of taking political advantage. The president’s calling from the LBJ ranch. Why have we started our tale on the 3 rd of November, just three days from the election? That’s when the president is on the phone with his old friend and adversary, Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader. President Thiệu of South Vietnam was not going to go along with that, and if Nixon won, he wouldn’t have to. ![]() State of the play was that the Communists wanted a share of power in the South, and the doves in the United States thought that was maybe OK-that was the signal Humphrey was sending. ![]()
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