To the Editor:
I find it outrageous that Craig Waldman claimed that Richard Nixon put "honor above personal ambition," in his latest column ("Greed," 11/16). Need I remind Mr. Waldman of former President Nixon's scheme to undercut the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris in order to discredit then Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and the Lyndon Johnson administration? The fact that Nixon and Anna Chan Chennault, the Chairwoman of Women for Nixon, convinced the South Vietnamese not to attend the talks destroyed any hope of achieving peace in Vietnam in 1968. As a result, Nixon edged out Humphrey in the election. It can hardly be claimed that ruining the prospects of a peace agreement in order to win an election was an honorable act.
And I don't even have to mention Watergate. Please, Nixon was anything but an honorable human being.
Adam Mueller, LA '04
