Putting The "Dick" In Dick Nixon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668

It's an article of faith among many historians that Nixon scuttled Lyndon Johnson's 1968 "October Surprise" of a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam War.  Nixon knew that if Johnson ended the war, Humphrey would win.  Nixon's entire campaign was based on his foreign policy chops and his "secret plan to end the war".

Now we know that Nixon blew up the talks by reaching out to the Saigon regime.

And thousands more people died.