Anna Chennault

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...Chennault periodically reported to Nixon's campaign chairman, John Mitchell, that Thieu had no intention of attending any peace conference.
1968 After Johnson's announcement, he illegally ordered the FBI to wiretap staffers on the Nixon presidential campaign, as well as Anna Chennault. On November 2, Johnson's wiretaps recorded Chennault speaking to the South Vietnamese ambassador to the U.S.:
1968 Earlier that year, in July 1968, Nixon had asked Chennault to be his "channel" to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu,...
1973-Today Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)
1997 While Chennault, in 1997, claimed that "I was constantly in touch with Nixon and Mitchell," the wiretaps contain no smoking gun as to Nixon's knowledge of any of Chennault's activities.
Historian Robert Dallek wrote that any efforts by Chennault "probably made no difference" because Thieu was unwilling to attend the talks and there was little chance of an agreement being reached before the election.
Whether the Nixon campaign interfered with any ongoing negotiations between the Johnson administration and the South Vietnamese by engaging Anna Chennault, a prominent Chinese-American fundraiser...