'I'm convinced a second gunman was involved in killing my uncle': Robert Kennedy

[Sekhmets Daughter]

223. On that we absolutely agree.

The government decides the people can't handle the truth and we are left in the dark to suffer the consequences of our ignorance.

Johnson and his advisers kept the secret that Nixon had put a spanner in the works of the Paris Peace Negotiations by promising the president of South Vietnam he would get a better settlement from Nixon than Humphrey, including keeping the war going for 4 more years. (Nixon ran on ending the war with honor and dignity) Johnson could have revealed this before the election, he had the evidence. So, an additional 20,750 Americans (including my brother) died, over 111,000 were injured and no one knows how many Vietnamese died as a result of that Nixon bargain and Johnson's poor decision. Nixon, who knew that Johnson knew, went on to disgrace himself with Watergate, but even after that he advised future republicans on how to get away with undermining the democratic process. Watergate taught them that they had to do better job with the coverup and that Democrats were ridiculously spineless when it comes to calling them on their crap.

I'm reading "America's Stolen Narrative" by Robert Parry...the stunts Republicans have pulled and which Democrats have allowed them to get away with are truly amazing.