NIXON TAPES: Vietnam is Kennedy's Fault (Billy Graham)

Billy Graham
April 7, 1971
001-014
White House Telephone

President Richard Nixon talks with his friend Rev. Billy Graham. Graham praises Nixon for his speech earlier that evening on the Vietnam War. Nixon closed the speech by putting aside his written notes and discussing a four-year old boy named Kevin, whose father had been killed in Vietnam. Both men blame the origins of the Vietnam War on John Kennedy. (In the various conversations from this night, Nixon sounds as if he may possibly have been drinking some.)

(Photo: Rev. Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon)

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[cunn9305]

JFK did not kill Diem directly but he and Lodge gave blessing to the coup that led to his assassination. This is clearly a situation where a Democratic administration lost its nerve in putting up with all the faults of a strong but flawed anticommunist leader. Once he was gone the country fell completely apart and we were forced to take over or leave altogether. We see how that worked out. Kennedy forgot FDR's maxim : " He might be an SOB, but he's OUR SOB ". Truer words were never spoken.

[moproducer]

Nixon sure cleaned up his language with Billy Graham on the line. Only two "damns".

[coy77512]

@williwo No kennedy sent f-ing advisors.Get that straight! Not one combat troop and he had an executive order to withdrawal them that johnson reversed 4 days after JFK was shotand btw Eisenhower had advisors in Vietnam too so get your history straight. Nam was nixon's and Johnson's fault! Period! What did Nixon accomplish by keeping troops there?More dead americans. Great job you corrupt Fuck! What did Johnson accomplish in Vietnam? Nothing except dead americans. Great job you other corrupt fuck

[inkey2]

@skeatesy1 __LOL...JFK & Bill Graham had conversations about "you"? I think you need to make some fine adjustments on your alumunimum foil hat

[loubowie]

Pathetic! Sickening. My opinion of this "holy man" just went into the shitter!

[iown813]

@BUYUKYILMAZ JFK was the first to send troops

[BUYUKYILMAZ]

Vietnam began 1955

[MrAnthonyVance]

Let me get this right. Nixon commits murders on a world scale and Rev Billy Graham praises him and says "God bless you." Do I need to say more ... religious and political hypocrisy memorialized in a phone conversation ... there it is ... listen and reflect.

[PopsDizzy]

Both dead ;)

[450984]

Whenever a politician need s a lift up, they call on this fake to help their cause! A racist, phony & fake just like the ass he's talking to!

[pat442389]

@cunn9305 totally untrue... lodge was a longtime kennedy family enemy from boston who sided with the CIA's way of looking at vietnam. kennedy wanted diem to accept certain things and allow certain political ppl in exile back into the gov. and even in the end kennedy would have given the diem bros safe passage but lodge wouldnt send his cable back quick enough and by the time JFK got it the generals had moved in, killing the diem bros.

[AleksandarTadich]

"well, good for you"