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kleinbl00 · 2650 days ago · link · · parent · post: Meet The Neo-Nazis Who Organized the Klan-like Charlottesville, VA Rally - It's Going Down
D00d I can beat that. “I call it the madman theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe that I've reached the point that I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, ‘for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he is angry — and he has his hand on the nuclear button’ — and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.” never mind that it didn't fucking workNixon’s former chief of staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman wrote in his book The Ends of Power that Nixon had explicitly outlined a version of the strategy the previous summer:
