A newly discovered collection of notes written by Nixon aide HR Haldeman
reveals that during Nixon’s 68 presidential campaign, he illegally
conspired to convince the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu,
to scuttle the peace talks run by Nixon’s political rival, Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey.
Nixon was advised on the maneuver by Henry Kissinger, and also
threatened CIA director Richard Helms with termination and political
ruin if the CIA didn’t cooperate with Nixon’s plans. It is a federal
crime to take steps to “defeat the measures of the United States.” It is
considered a form of treason.
Nixon later repeatedly denied having taken any measures to undermine the
peace talks, and directed his lawyers to spend their careers
suppressing the release of documents related to the 1968 election and
the talks.
As Hunter S Thompson wrote in his obituary for Nixon:
“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket
would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty
into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a
jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed
servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral
was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been
burned in a trash bin.”
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger are complicit (you could make an argument that they are responsible, too) in the deaths of more than 30,000 Americans and over a million Vietnamese.
If you contribute to an environment where they feel judged, ridiculed and unwelcome, then you are a big part of the reason why so many Resolutioners fail to continue exercising throughout the year.
I don’t care if they’re using your favorite squat rack.
I don’t care if you have to wait for a while before getting a treadmill.
I don’t care if you think that they socialize and rest more than they actually workout.
You don’t have to be buddy-buddy with every new face, but please stay courteous and respectful towards everyone. You could personally be the difference between whether they continue on this path of an active lifestyle or if they give up after 2 weeks.
