“Wasn’t Nixon Inaugurated In Ja. ‘69?”
Yes, but what the heck. If Roosevelt could address the nation on television (that didn’t exist except in a lab) before he was even elected then Nixon could take over the Vietnam war before he was inaugurated. /s
Chennault played a crucial role on behalf of the Nixon campaign in the wrecking of the 1968 Paris peace talks which could have ended the Vietnam War. She arranged the contact with South Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Diem whom Richard Nixon met in secret from July 1968 in New York. It was through Chennault's intercession that Nixon advised Saigon to refuse participation in the talks, promising a better deal once elected. Records of FBI wiretaps show that Chennault phoned Bui Diem on November 2 with the message "hold on, we are gonna win." President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu obliged and the talks achieved almost no progress by the time Johnson left office.