“Even before Watergate brought down his presidency, Richard Nixon was the prime mover in another illegal action that could have been grounds for impeachment.”
“It is now clear, after extensive research, that Nixon initiated the campaign to sabotage the My Lai massacre trials so no American soldier involved in the killings would be convicted of war crimes.”
“The massacre — in which 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were slaughtered by out-of-control US soldiers on March 16, 1968 — had been covered up successfully for more than a year by officers in the chain of command in Vietnam at the time.”
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