From Nixon Sabotaged Paris Peace Talks and Our Future by Daniel C. Lavery:

Johnson furiously attempted to achieve peace before the 1968 election. Nixon secretly convinced the South Vietnamese leadership that he could win a better deal if he became President. Watergate grand jury testimony from 1975 showed that Nixon complained that the Johnson administration bugged his 1968 campaign. Why? Nixon revealed a secret that LBJ called treasonous about Tricky Dick's 1968 campaign's sabotaging of the Paris peace talks regarding the bloody Vietnam War. The evidence came from diplomatic cable traffic and Johnson's audiotapes showing a better deal awaited if South Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu boycotted the Paris peace talks and awaited Nixon's defeat of Hubert Humphrey, two weeks after Nixon's plumbers were caught at Watergate bugging the Democratic National Committee. Nixon's aide Charles Colson discussed with him a story that the Democrats had bugged Nixon's connection to Thieu, right-wing Chinese-American activist, Anna Chennault... Read More

In This Issue:

1. Veterans and Nurses Fight for Improvements at the Jesse Brown VA by Robert Clack
2. Remembering the Christmas Bombing by Interview with Barry Romo by Jen Tayabji
3. From the National Office by Bill Branson
4. VVAW Military and Veterans Counseling Closing: VVAW Still Fights On by
5. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
6. Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
7. Corpses, Corpses (poem) by Tim Bagwell
8. Celebration of the Life of David Cline by Susan Schnall
9. COVVHA Testifies to the Institute of Medicine by Heather Bowser
10. Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Franklin
11. Kill Anything That Moves by John Ketwig (reviewer)
12. Turse's Take on US Atrocities in Vietnam by Horace Coleman (reviewer)
13. Confessions of a War Criminal by R. G. Cantalupo
14. Stop the Killing! Ground the Drones! by Louie De Benedette
15. A Veteran's Perspective on Gun Violence by Thomas Bayard
16. The Gun Line by Gregory Ross
17. It's People Who Kill People... With Guns by Bill Andrews
18. The Dark (poem) by August Steiner-Zehender
19. "Violence is as American as Cherry Pie!" by Horace Coleman
20. Guns by Harold Pettus
21. Oxy, the Smart Bomb by Bily X. Curmano
22. Worries at the Pentagon (cartoon) by Jeff Danzinger
23. Women in Combat: Can We Talk About This? by Jerry Lembcke
24. How to Live with Killing (poem) by Horace Coleman
25. Cheating the Reaper (poem) by W.D. Ehrhart
26. Christmas Bombings 1972 by Susan Schnall
27. Nixon Sabotaged Paris Peace Talks and Our Future by Daniel C. Lavery
28. Telegram by
29. John Piester - An Unsung Hero by Cindy Piester
30. Hagel Critics (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
31. Vietnam: A Time Capsule by Suzanne Cogan
32. When He Was Good by Marc Levy
33. Creative Transformation Through Art Therapy by Trina Irish
34. Forming Relationships of Understanding Promotes Healing by Amy Blumenshine
35. Student Response by John Ketwig
36. No Fear (poem) by Paul Nichols
37. Jimi (poem) by William J. Reiter
38. Uncoiling (poem) by Paul Hellweg
39. The Gun Problem No One Talks About: Shooting Ranges in Schools by Rick Jahnkow
40. America, Listen To Your Veterans by Rick Harrienger
41. A Message of Gratitude by Dan New
42. Saudis Now Providing Arms for Syrian Arms (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
43. To End All Wars by Tom Blakemore (reviewer)
44. Look Not Unto the Morrow by David Swanson (reviewer)
45. US to Supply Non-lethal Aid (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
46. A Warriors Psalm from Vietnam (poem) by Sgt. Charles F. Harrienger, Jr.
47. RECOLLECTIONS: Christmas Forty Years Ago: Random Thoughts About the Roar of War Planes by Douglas M. Mason
48. In the foxhole with neocons (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
49. 2012 VVAW Events (photos) by