[PGR88]

A recording was found, from 1966, of President Lyndon Johnson speaking to Senator Eugene McCarthy on the death of Diem some three years earlier: “[We] killed him. We all got together and got a gaddamn bunch of thugs and we went in and assassinated him. Now we’ve really had no political stability since then.”

[Fiji Hill]

A recording was found, from 1966, of President Lyndon Johnson speaking to Senator Eugene McCarthy on the death of Diem some three years earlier: “[We] killed him. We all got together and got a gaddamn bunch of thugs and we went in and assassinated him. Now we’ve really had no political stability since then.”

LBJ should have listened to Richard Nixon, who on more than one occasion in 1963 warned that the issue was not Diem and someone better but Diem and someone worse.