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MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 18, 1970: The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the U.S. Postal Service began on this date in New York City. The walkout was illegal, giving President Richard Nixon the excuse to send in federal troops to sort the mail. But the strike succeeded in forcing Congress to raise wages and reorganize the postal system and marked a new militancy among postal employees. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/postal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a></p>
~/phranck :antifa:<p>Und weil es so spannend ist, schaue ich mir nun nach der Doku den Film “Die Unbestechlichen" an.</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Watergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watergate</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Skandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skandal</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a></p>
~/phranck :antifa:<p>Ich habe zwar schon viel und oft vom <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Watergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watergate</span></a>-<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Skandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skandal</span></a> gehört, aber zu meinem Beschämen nie wirklich gewusst, worum es da eigentlich ging. Nun... allen, den es genauso geht wie mir, hier ist eine spannende und ausführliche Doku über dieses interessante Thema. Und nebenbei, es ist so aktuell wie eh und je!</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfeX75kVxXU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=VfeX75kVxX</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p>
Linknation<p>ask <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bank</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a> staff most DO NOT KNOW where money comes from, how money is created:</p><p>in short a (UNDEMOCRATIC controlled?) <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/centralbank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralbank</span></a> has taken away the right to print money (called "<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/seigniorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seigniorage</span></a>") from the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gov</span></a> in order to avoid inflation (haha) X-D</p><p>instead, they print money give it to their private bank buddies for u know "investment" aka casino speculation </p><p>the only thing that gives money it's value is that people WORK for it, but if there are no jobs, no productivity the value of money goes down as well (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtf</span></a> right? tell that the billionaires who cut jobs!!!)</p><p>ok after all those fun <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> now off to the depressing <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/shit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shit</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/goldstandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goldstandard</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> u screwed it up! <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fiat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiat</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> explained or why the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dollar</span></a> aint worth shit no more "thanks" all <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/centralbank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralbank</span></a> involved</p><p>INSTEAD of eliminating the gold standard completely <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> could have REDUCED the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/goldstandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goldstandard</span></a> </p><p>"sorry pal 30 dollars won't buy u a ounce no more now it's only 0.75 ounce"<br>(10 years later 0.5 10 years later 0.25 and so on and so on... well gues that's kind of what happend anyway X-D)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtf</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Gerhard D.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@StefanMuenz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>StefanMuenz</span></a></span> "If the president does it, then it's not illegal". <a href="https://olching.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"In all, there were six <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/resignations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resignations</span></a>, including Sassoon’s. This is twice the number of people who were sacked when President <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Watergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watergate</span></a>...</p><p>The multiple resignations, especially by respected Department leaders in both New York and D.C., are reverberating across the nation, in the halls of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> and in our <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a>."<br>- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jaykuo</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-thursday-afternoon-massacre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-t</span><span class="invisible">hursday-afternoon-massacre</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>I remember Richard <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a>'s Saturday Night Massacre, which precipitated the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> hearings which triggered his resignation. Only one person was actually fired — Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Nixon. Two resigned because they refused to fire Cox — Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Total of three gone, and it was a scandal. <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday</span><span class="invisible">_Night_Massacre</span></a> </p><p>Make America great again.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OvertonWindow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OvertonWindow</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Tump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Watergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watergate</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>”Think I’m being too hard on you? Look, if all you were doing was planning Martian colonies and enjoying the occasional goose step, I’d leave you be. But … you’ve got a ragtag team of amateurs in DC breaking into places they don’t belong. Why does that sound so familiar to me? Mark my words, fuckface: this won’t end well. I’ll keep a place warm for you down here. Very warm.”<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>”You’ve probably deluded yourself into thinking you’re the Second Coming of another Nazi who liked to fire off rockets: Wernher von Braun. Well, I knew Wehrner, and, believe you me, that sneaky Kraut did everything in his power to hide the fact that he was a Nazi.”<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>”…it should come as no surprise that I caught your Inauguration Day speech in all its fascistic glory. And let me say this: that was some fucked up shit. I realize that you didn’t exactly grow up in the cradle of civil rights, but even by South African standards, that “straight-arm gesture,” as the mainstream media politely called it, seemed a tad extreme. Don’t get me wrong: back in the day, no one was more racist than Dick Nixon. But I tried to be subtle about it.”<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Nixon's letter to Elon Musk<br><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/nixons-letter-to-elon-musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">robertreich.substack.com/p/nix</span><span class="invisible">ons-letter-to-elon-musk</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a></p>
David Zappelli<p>Saying it’s the most serious <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a> since <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Watergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watergate</span></a> is an understatement. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> never removed <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GovernmentDepartments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentDepartments</span></a> or called for the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/invasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invasion</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/annexation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>annexation</span></a> of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allies</span></a>. Neither did the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a>. A <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> only changes control of the state. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> changes the state itself.</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5135948-trump-murphy-democracy-crisis/amp/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/senate/51</span><span class="invisible">35948-trump-murphy-democracy-crisis/amp/</span></a></p>
Six Grandfathers Mountain<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>QasimRashid</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has demanded data on potentially thousands of FBI agents who worked on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jan6investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jan6investigation</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a> reports that this order came from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitehouse</span></a> and it seems it was possibly destined to expose the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FBIagents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBIagents</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jan6prosecutors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jan6prosecutors</span></a> who have been fired or resigned on Monday Feb 3 2025</p><p>⭕<br>So, "this not a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a>, this is THE END of law enforcement without favoritism" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RachelMaddow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelMaddow</span></a><br>Friday Jan 31 2025</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpCould" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCould</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MexicanBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanBorder</span></a></p><p>Oh, and yes, the idea of closing the Mexican border even predates <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>: </p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OperationIntercept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperationIntercept</span></a>] and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OperationInterceptII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperationInterceptII</span></a>]tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened..."</p><p>"Although the border was reopened within a matter of days, once again, the shutdown severely hurt the border economy – as well as relations between the two countries."</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/nixon-and-reagan-tried-closing-the-border-to-pressure-mexico-heres-what-happened-114956" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/nixon-and-</span><span class="invisible">reagan-tried-closing-the-border-to-pressure-mexico-heres-what-happened-114956</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>In his book “Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975,” U.S. journalist A.J. Langguth says that despite Kissinger’s protestations for Tho to be quiet, during one session of the talks he shouted at Kissinger for over an hour:</p><p>“For more than ten years, America has used violence to beat down the Vietnamese people-napalm, B-52s. But you don’t draw any lessons from your failures. You continue the same policy. Ngu xuan! Ngu xuan! Ngu xuan!”</p><p>The translator refused to tell Kissinger what Ngu xuan meant (massively stupid) for fear of causing offence.</p><p>Luu Van Loi, who was with Tho at the conference as a member of the negotiating team, wasn’t happy with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kissinger</span></a> either. “Kissinger was dodgy; he always brought up irrelevant matters at the start of meetings, and only mentioned the important stuff out for discussion at night. He must have thought that the old Le Duc Tho was sleepy and tired. But he knew nothing about Tho! The longer the negotiation went, the more alert Tho got.”</p><p>Kissinger seemed to agree with Luu Van Loi when he expressed his astonishment: “Sometimes he talked for hours straight. I said, ‘I’ve heard this countless times,’ but Tho responded ‘You’ve heard it countless times but you haven’t remembered it, let me repeat…’”</p><p>Thọ told Kissinger at their first meeting that "Vietnamization" was doomed, dismissively saying in French: "Previously, with over one million U.S and Saigon troops, you have failed. Now how can you win if you let the South Vietnamese Army fight alone and if you only give them military support?"</p><p>In April 1970, Thọ broke off his meetings with Kissinger, saying that there was nothing to discuss. An attempt by Kissinger to talk to Thọ again in May 1970 was rejected with a note reading "The U.S. words of peace are just empty ones"</p><p>In July 1971, Kissinger taunted Thọ with news that President <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> would be visiting China soon to meet <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MaoZedong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaoZedong</span></a>, telling him that the days when the North Vietnamese could count of the supply of Chinese arms were coming to close. Thọ showed no emotion: "That is your affair. Our fighting is our preoccupation, and that will decide the outcome for our country. What you have told us will have no influence on our fighting".</p><p>2 May 1972, Thọ had his 13th meeting with Kissinger in Paris. The meeting was hostile; the North Vietnamese had just taken Quang Tri City in South Vietnam, which led Nixon to tell Kissinger "No nonsense. No niceness. No accommodations". During the meeting, Thọ mentioned that Senator William Fulbright was criticizing the Nixon administration, leading Kissinger to say: "Our domestic discussions are no concern of yours". Thọ snapped back: "I'm giving an example to prove that Americans share our views". When Kissinger asked Thọ why North Vietnam had not responded on a proposal he sent via the Soviet Union, Thọ replied: "We have on many occasions said that if you have any question, you should talk to directly to us, and we shall talk directly to you. We don't speak through a third person".</p><p>August 1972, Kissinger promised Thọ that he would pressure Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to resign if Thọ agreed to a peace deal before US presidential elections. Thọ told Kissinger that the timetable for Thiệu's departure was no longer an immediate concern &amp; he wanted some $8 billion in reparations for the war damage. Kissinger told Thọ that he wanted to tell the world about their secret meetings since 1970 to give the impression that Nixon was making progress on peace in Vietnam, a suggestion Thọ rejected, saying it's not his job to assist Nixon's reelection campaign.</p><p>20 November 1972, Kissinger met Thọ again in Paris. Kissinger no longer aimed at secrecy &amp; was followed by paparazzi as he went to a house owned by the French Communist Party where Thọ was waiting for him. Kissinger announced the Americans wanted major changes to the peace agreement made in October to accommodate Thiệu, which led Thọ to accuse him of negotiating in bad faith.<br>Thọ: "We have been deceived by the French, the Japanese and the Americans. But the deception has never been so flagrant as of now".</p><p>Putting more pressure, Nixon told Kissinger to break off talks if Thọ wouldn't agree to changes he wanted. Kissinger told Nixon: "While we have a moral case for bombing North Vietnam when it does not accept our terms, it seems to be really stretching the point to bomb North Vietnam when it has accepted our terms and when South Vietnam has not". December 1972, talks had broken &amp; Nixon decided to resume bombing North Vietnam.<br>After the Christmas bombings of 1972, Thọ was in particularly savage mood towards Kissinger.</p><p>8 January 1973 in a house in the French town of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger arrived to find nobody at the door to greet him. When Kissinger entered the conference room, nobody spoke to him. Sensing the hostile mood, Kissinger speaking in French said: "It was not my fault about the bombing". Before Kissinger could say anymore, Thọ exploded in rage, saying in French:<br>"Under the pretext of interrupted negotiations, you resumed the bombing of North Vietnam, just at the moment when I reached home. You have 'greeted' my arrival in a very courteous manner! You action, I can say, is flagrant and gross! You and no one else strained the honor of the United States"</p><p>"You've spent billions of dollars and many tons of bombs when we had a text ready to sign". Kissinger replied: "I have heard many adjectives in your comments. I propose that you should not use them". Thọ answered: "I have used those adjectives with a great deal of restraint already. The world opinion, the U.S. press and U.S. political personalities have used harsher words".</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseRevolutionaries</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialResistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viet</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWarOnVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongLiveVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> About the Video: I found the reference to the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> era quite enlightening. Our times are kind of similar, the president a crook?! Also minority rights, Vietnam/war trauma, moon landing and civil unrest galore, also internationally. It rhymes.</p>
elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> <br>vey interesting whis parallel between Nixon and Trump.<br>I didn't know that.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GreenFire</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; I happen to think that it wasn't Joe who failed but the American legacy mainstream media and our electorate.</p><p>This is why I keep emphasizing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acknowledgeTheProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acknowledgeTheProblem</span></a> 🙂 </p><p>Media and electorate had their role in re-electing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, but those are different problems that don't preclude the problem with not bringing a criminal to justice.</p><p>We refused to acknowledge the problem with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a>.</p><p>5 decades later, we have <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> again.</p><p>It was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a>.</p><p>Neutering it was a political move</p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VOANews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VOANews</span></a></span> It is also worth noting that Carter's immediate elected predecessor — the most infamous resident of the White House until 2017 — *ended* covert aid to Tibetans and instead struck a deal to empower their colonizers. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kissinger</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tibet</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@BootedUp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BootedUp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@MoiraEve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MoiraEve</span></a></span> </p><p>I meant the behavior of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his laissez-faire attitude to governance, not his election (where foreign interference and Comey's lapse in judgement played important roles).</p><p>One could make a case that if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> paid a heavy price for his behavior, it would have discouraged other rogue presidents, and that is what we should remember before entertaining the thought of a Trump pardon.</p>