Actually that was the year Nixon was elected.
We all know that.
Kerry's aim was to imply that Nixon was president and had ordered covert operations in Cambodia and then lied to the American people.
What's your point?
Nixon was elected in November 1968 and inaugurated in January 1969. The president who was not elected to his first term in office, then lied us into a war which he bungled so badly that the troops weren't given a chance to win, Lyndon Johnson, was president during the period of Kerry's recovered delusional memory.
Yes, but on Christmas 1968, he hadn't been inaugurated yet. That didn't happen until January 20, 1969. Johnson was still president until then.
Have you noticed how kerry always refers toVietnam as 'Nixon's war'. Johnson was president when he went over. Nixon was when he came back.
Christmas of 68? Sure, Nixon was ELECTED, but Johnson occcupied the White House until January 1969, right? Just like now, Bush was elected in November 2000, but didn't take office until January 2001.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index2.html
From the White House web site, it lists:
Johnson, Lyndon - 1963-1969
Nixon, Richard - 1969-1974
Ford, Gerald - 1974-1977
So - Christmas of 1968, it was President Johnson, and President-Elect Nixon.
"Actually that was the year Nixon was elected."
Yes that was the year Nixon was elected, however, he was not inaugurated until the following January (1969). In other words, Johnson was the President when kerry claimed he went to Cambodia.