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Quid Pro Quo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

President Trump demanded that the Ukrainian Government investigate Joe Biden.\u00a0\u00a0He had \u201can offer they couldn\u2019t refuse;\u201d either start a public inquiry into Biden, or not receive the military aid they desperately needed to fight Russia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Trump has done this before.  On the White House lawn he asked China to investigate Biden.  This deal was less obvious, but the US was literally sitting at the negotiating table with China at that moment.  And of course, there is the famous line:  \u201cRussia, if you\u2019re listening, find Hillary Clinton\u2019s 30,000 emails\u2026\u201d Russian military intelligence began attacking Clinton\u2019s servers almost immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So President Trump has asked foreign nations to help against his political opponents quite often.\u00a0\u00a0This isn\u2019t a \u201cquestion;\u201d he\u2019s said it \u201cin the public square.\u201d It is fact. But he\u2019s not the first President to try to manipulate other nations for domestic political gain.\u00a0\u00a0He, in true Trumpian fashion, just takes it \u201cto the max\u201d and does it out in the open.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are at least two other times when Presidential candidates offered some kind of deal, a \u201cquid pro quo\u201d to a foreign power.\u00a0\u00a0Both actions are still shrouded in history; as much rumor and legend as fact.\u00a0\u00a0But perhaps more importantly, they were done by two Presidents that Donald Trump respects as role models:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1968 Election<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The year 1968 was one of the most divisive times in American history.\u00a0\u00a0There was a nexus of movements:\u00a0\u00a0the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam war movement, and the \u201chippie\u201d movement all came to a head.\u00a0\u00a0It was the year of assassinations; both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were killed in the spring.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was a year of protest, riot, and demands for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politically Democrats were split. It was the party of war, with President Johnson orchestrating. And it was also the party of dissent, with Eugene McCarthy and later Bobby Kennedy running for the Democratic Presidential nomination on anti-war platforms.\u00a0\u00a0McCarthy was so effective that Johnson dropped out of the race, his spot taken by his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This left the Party fractured, with McCarthy not having enough backing from the \u201cold line\u201d party members, and Kennedy gone.  Humphrey won the nomination, but it was a tarnished victory.  Rioting tore the Chicago Convention apart, and the heavy-handed tactics of Chicago\u2019s Mayor Daley made any kind of unification impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republicans nominated Richard Nixon, who came back from defeats in 1960 and 1962 .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nixon touted his secret \u201cpeace plan\u201d to end the war, but absolutely didn\u2019t align himself with anti-war forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secret Plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Humphrey was tied to Johnson and the war.  Johnson was attempting to negotiate a ceasefire with the North Vietnamese in Paris, an \u201cOctober Surprise\u201d that could tip the balance in the highly divided election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nixon was desperately afraid that Johnson would end the war before the election, assuring Humphrey\u2019s victory.  He turned to a shadowy figure in American history, Anna Chenault, the widow of World War II general Claire Chenault and a powerful figure in the Republican Party.  Nixon tasked Chenault with making sure that the South Vietnamese government, our allies, refused to cooperate with President Johnson in the Paris negotiations (Politico<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cquid pro quo:\u201d if the South Vietnamese government tanked the peace conference, Nixon would get South Vietnam a \u201cbetter deal\u201d when he became President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson knew about it before the election.  He called Republican leaders, and Nixon himself, demanding that they stop. Of course they denied any knowledge of Chenault\u2019s actions.  But Johnson didn\u2019t reveal any of this to the public, and on Election Day, Nixon eked out victory over Humphrey by .7% of the popular vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Nixon took office, he \u201cdoubled down\u201d on US involvement in the War and support of the South Vietnamese government.  It took seven more years for the United States to fully leave Vietnam, and when we did, the South Vietnamese government was totally defeated.  Today Vietnam remains one of the few solidly Communist nations in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hostage in the White House<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Forty years ago, on November 4th<\/sup>, 1979, fifty-two Americans were taken hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran.  The American ally, the Shah of Iran, was overthrown, and Muslim hardliners lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini had control.  The Shah was exiled to the United States; Iran wanted to trade them for the Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Jimmy Carter struggled to find a way to free the hostages.\u00a0\u00a0It was a year from the 1980 Presidential election and the crisis became the most important issue.\u00a0\u00a0Carter attempted to rescue them, the first use of the new \u201cDelta Force.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Dust storms and inexperience caused the operation to fail, and the Iranians were left with abandoned helicopters to use as a display of American ineptness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early on, Carter promised not to campaign until the hostages were freed, and while he ultimately came out, it was another example of his inability to control the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Iran Needs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ronald Reagan, former Governor of California, was the Republican candidate for President in 1980.  The threat of an \u201cOctober Surprise,\u201d Carter freeing the hostages; was the key to victory.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reagan\u2019s actions are still obscured.  In the middle of the campaign summer of 1980, campaign manager William Casey (later appointed director of the CIA) went to Madrid, Spain.  At that time, he supposedly met with Iranian officials, and offered incentives for a \u201cbetter deal\u201d if they held the hostages until after the election, avoiding a Carter \u201cOctober Surprise\u201d (LA Times<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reagan won an overwhelming victory over Carter.\u00a0\u00a0The Iranians announced that the hostages would be freed on Reagan\u2019s inauguration day.\u00a0\u00a0Jimmy Carter flew to Germany to meet them.\u00a0\u00a0Not long after, the Reagan administration allowed Israel to sell US made anti-tank weapons to Iran, to use in their ongoing conflict with Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facts and Rumors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We now know that the story of Nixon and Anna Chenault is true.\u00a0\u00a0What Reagan did or didn\u2019t do is still not as clear.\u00a0\u00a0But we can draw some conclusions.\u00a0\u00a0The Trump Presidency clearly is influenced by Nixon\u2019s actions.\u00a0\u00a0Roger Stone, who began his political career as a Nixon \u201cdirty trickster,\u201d has had tremendous political sway over Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Reagan legacy is the Trump \u201ctouchstone.\u201d   \u201cMaking America Great Again\u201d and Trump\u2019s fixation with \u201cWall\u201d (Trump wants to build one, Reagan wanted one tore down) are intentional echoes of the Reagan Presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is so drawn to the two Presidents, is it really isn\u2019t a surprise that he would follow their example of using foreign intervention to influence American elections?  Creating or avoiding the \u201cOctober Surprise\u201d is a Republican tradition; Trump is simply bringing it out to the full light of public scrutiny:  ask Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quid Pro Quo President Trump demanded that the Ukrainian Government investigate Joe Biden.\u00a0\u00a0He had \u201can offer they couldn\u2019t refuse;\u201d either start a public inquiry into Biden, or not receive the military aid they desperately needed to fight Russia.\u00a0\u00a0 And Trump has done this before.  On the White House lawn he asked China to investigate Biden.  This deal … Continue reading “Shadows of History”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nShadows of History : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It isn't a surprise that President Trump asked foreign nations for aid in getting re-elected. 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