But I think that we're...we...

...scurrying on dangerous ground.

Are some of our folks, including some of the old China lobby,

...are going to the Vietnamese Embassy,

...and saying, please notify the President,

...that he'll hold out to November the 2nd,

...and think it'll get a better deal.

Now I'm reading their hand,

...everybody I don't want to get this in the campaign.

And they ought to be doing this, this is treason.

We know what they're doing.

I know who they're talking to, and I know what they're saying.

That was President Lyndon Johnson,

...talking to Republican Senate leader Everett Dirkson

...on November 2nd, 1968.

Revealing the outlines of what, in retrospect,

...may have been one of the biggest political scandals

...in modern American history.

The Johnson administration had received alarming intelligence

...that in the closing days of the 1968 presidential election

...the campaign of Republican candidate Richard Nixon

...was secretly communicating with the government of South Vietnam

...