Profiting Off Nixon's Vietnam 'Treason'
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The notion of Wall Street bankers meeting in private to discuss
profiting off a plot to extend the Vietnam War and risk the lives of
thousands of American soldiers may sound like a conspiracy movie script,
but it is a tragic reality reflected in once secret White House
documents, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
As I pored over documents from what the archivists at Lyndon
Johnson’s presidential library call their “X-File” – chronicling Richard
Nixon’s apparent sabotage of Vietnam peace talks in 1968 – I was
surprised by one fact in particular, how Johnson’s White House got wind
of what Johnson later labeled Nixon’s “treason.”
According to the records, Eugene Rostow, Johnson’s Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs, got a tip in late October 1968 from a Wall
Street source who said that one of Nixon’s closest financial backers
was describing Nixon’s plan to “block” a peace settlement of the Vietnam
War. The backer was sharing this information with his banking
colleagues to help them place their bets on stocks and bonds.
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