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haldeman writes down, in the midst of the october 1968 "we are going to much he wrench -- monkeywrench lyndon johnson'seace initiative." time tonied it at the lyndon johnson and david frost and his biographers. they said he never played any role in doing this. in fact, he had used a , andtween, a campaign aide had her communicate to the south vietnamese they would get a better deal if they held back from the peace process, and he got elected. the war went on. there toly went to far leave the impression the war would not have gone on if he had done this. we don't know that. but certainly lbj thought there was a decent chance that a peace deal was possible. whatever nixon did to disrupt it, i make the argument that this was far worse than watergate given the great loss of life that followed. sayn: in your sources, you that ashland wanted the job and didn't get it. john: there is a whole section of not just haldeman's scrawled shows the also it degree of self-consciousness because haldeman had collected all that stuff together. there were memos and timeslips showing the number of phone calls that went bac

yellow pad where haldeman writes down in the midst of the october 1968, we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson'sce initiative. nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and he denied it to david frost and he denied it to his biographers. always said that he had never played any role in doing this. on mr. nixon's political career from his early days in congress to his tenure and downfall as president. washe way the team assembled -- they were clumsy, they were cynical burnt out former intelligence agents who are supervised by young men on nixon's staff who just wanted to be the cat that brought the dead mouse to the president's door. >> washington journal continues. host: congressman paul tonko of new york joins us now. a week removed from president

yellow pad where haldeman writes down, in the midst of the october 1968 "we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson's peace initiative." this is something that had always been rumored and just pieces had come out every the -- over the years. nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and david frost and his biographers. always said he never played any role in doing this. but in fact, he had used a go-between, a campaign aide, and had her communicate to the south vietnamese they would get a better deal if they held back from the peace process, and he got elected. and they did. and he got elected and the war went on. he probably went too far there to leave the impression the war would not have gone on if he had not done this. we don't know that. but certainly lbj thought there was a decent chance that a peace deal was possible. whatever nixon did to disrupt it, i make the argument that this was far worse than watergate given the great loss of life that followed. brian: in your notes, in your sources, you say that ashland wanted the job and didn't get it. where did you find that? john: there is a who

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>> here was a yellow pad where all the men -- aldeman writes down, -- we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson's peace effort. nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and he denied it to david frost. he also denied it to his be younger -- to his biographers. >> john farrell, longtime journalist, from his early days in congress. >> the way that the watergate or glares -- the way the team was assembled was clumsy. cynical, burnt out former intelligence or fbi agents that were supervised by young men on nixon's staff that cat thated to be "the brought the dead mouse to the door of the president." >> tonight on c-span's q&a at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> the los angeles times has been putting on the festival of books for more than 20 years and it has become an institution that is part of the community. way that and it is a we can celebrate with the readers of the paper and with the city as a whole. the very notion of reading. and today, when the idea of there being something called "fake news" is out there, i think that books help us celebrate the way that words and fax are grounded in storytelling

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monkeywrench the peace initiative. this was something that had always been rumored and bits and pieces had come out over the years but he denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and david frost and to his biographers. always said he never played a role in doing this. >> longtime journalist and author of the book richard nixon, the life on mr. richard nixon's early career in congress and his downfall as president. >> the way that the team was assembled was they were burnt out intelligence or fbi agents that were supervised by young men on his staff who just wanted to be the cat that brought the dead mouse to the president store. >> the senate hold out on judge neil gorsuch to serve on the supreme court. the senate at 9:30 and we expect a vote of 11:30 on c-span2. democrats attempted to block the confirmation of judge gorsuch but republicans changed the procedural rules to allow a majority vote to limit the debate. we will start with remarks from mr. mcco mcconnell.day that >> democratic colleagues have done something today that is unprecedented in the history of the senate.ee unfortunately, it's brought us to this point. we need to restore the norms and tradit