Did Richard Nixon commit treason?

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668

Very scary to think that our president could do such a thing.

[SWE]

Yes

[NewYorkExpress]

Yes

Every President has committed Treason in one form or another, even Washington.

[sdu754]

I don't know how much credence you can lend to this report. According to the article, there was a recording of Anna Chennault's calls that she tells the ambassador to "just hang on through election". If this is true, why wouldn't this recording be in the article? They had no trouble putting LBJs calls in there. Do you really think LBJ would have sat on the evidence? Where is the evidence? My guess is that it simply doesn't exist.

[Randy Bobandy]

Coming from Nixon.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I don't know how much credence you can lend to this report. According to the article, there was a recording of Anna Chennault's calls that she tells the ambassador to "just hang on through election". If this is true, why wouldn't this recording be in the article? They had no trouble putting LBJs calls in there. Do you really think LBJ would have sat on the evidence? Where is the evidence? My guess is that it simply doesn't exist.

As I recall, LBJ was quite aware, but for some sort of personal reason didn't use it against Nixon. The book I have with that is at home, so it's not like I can give you anything solid right now, as I'm on campus.

[Mordecai]

I don't know how much credence you can lend to this report. According to the article, there was a recording of Anna Chennault's calls that she tells the ambassador to "just hang on through election". If this is true, why wouldn't this recording be in the article? They had no trouble putting LBJs calls in there. Do you really think LBJ would have sat on the evidence? Where is the evidence? My guess is that it simply doesn't exist.

As I recall, LBJ was quite aware, but for some sort of personal reason didn't use it against Nixon. The book I have with that is at home, so it's not like I can give you anything solid right now, as I'm on campus.

It's because Nixon's plane was illegally bugged and if LBJ had come out with the evidence he'd have had to explain how he got it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yes

Every President has committed Treason in one form or another, even Washington.

Even the President who literally committed treason?¹ Who would have guessed?

¹Arguably. If you're British. Shut your pieholes, lawyers.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. — Sir John Harington (1561-1612)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I don't know how much credence you can lend to this report. According to the article, there was a recording of Anna Chennault's calls that she tells the ambassador to "just hang on through election". If this is true, why wouldn't this recording be in the article? They had no trouble putting LBJs calls in there. Do you really think LBJ would have sat on the evidence? Where is the evidence? My guess is that it simply doesn't exist.

As I recall, LBJ was quite aware, but for some sort of personal reason didn't use it against Nixon. The book I have with that is at home, so it's not like I can give you anything solid right now, as I'm on campus.

LBJ hated Humphrey's weak campaign against RFK and apparently viewed him as too weak to be President. He was rooting for Nixon in private, IIRC.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

I don't know how much credence you can lend to this report. According to the article, there was a recording of Anna Chennault's calls that she tells the ambassador to "just hang on through election". If this is true, why wouldn't this recording be in the article? They had no trouble putting LBJs calls in there. Do you really think LBJ would have sat on the evidence? Where is the evidence? My guess is that it simply doesn't exist.

As I recall, LBJ was quite aware, but for some sort of personal reason didn't use it against Nixon. The book I have with that is at home, so it's not like I can give you anything solid right now, as I'm on campus.

LBJ hated Humphrey's weak campaign against RFK and apparently viewed him as too weak to be President. He was rooting for Nixon in private, IIRC.

Wasn't Lyndon too liberal to root for any Republican?

[DevotedDemocrat]

Lyndon supported GHW Bus's senate bid privatey and also supported Nixon over McGovern in '72. Privately of course.